While assessing a client, the nurse learns that the client has been taking a thiazide diuretic at home, and sometimes takes double doses. A typical side effect of excessive doses of thiazide diuretics is signs and symptoms of:
1. nephrosis.
2. metabolic acidosis.
3. hypokalemia.
4. hypernatremia.
ANS: 3
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