A patient is taking gabapentin (Neurontin) for spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis. Which of the following should be the priority for monitoring?
A) Hepatic function
B) Cardiac function
C) Respiratory function
D) Renal function
D
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When teaching a client prescribed ritodrine about adverse effects of this medication, the nurse recognizes client understanding of the teaching when the client identifies which of the following:
a. somnolence. c. hypotension. b. lethargy. d. nervousness.
The nurse is preparing to measure a client's temperature. What is the first thing that the nurse should do to ensure an accurate temperature reading?
1. Assess that the equipment used is working properly. 2. Place the client in a position that is most comfortable for the health care provider. 3. Take the temperature with a chemical disposable thermometer when the client is perspiring. 4. Wait at least 10 minutes before taking the temperature after a client has been smoking.
The nurse is teaching a health education class at a community center. Patient education about treatment for scabies should include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. "Treatment should be directed to body areas that itch." b. "Treatment should continue 2 weeks after the signs and symptoms have resolved." c. "The entire body surface must be treated." d. "The face and scalp of adults should be treated." e. "Bedding and underwear should be machine washed and dried."
The nurse who follows the social psychiatry model of etiology of anxiety understands that the four stages of anxiety are explainable as:
1. Individual responses to the environment ranging along a continuum from adaptive to formation of symptoms of mental or physical illness 2. A generalization from an earlier traumatic experience to a benign setting or object that can be modified by new learning 3. A genetically predetermined response to environmental stress 4. Related to degrees of warning to the ego that it is in peril from internal threats