A 34-year-old male patient is prescribed methimazole (MMI). The nurse will advise him to report which of the following immediately?
A) Vertigo
B) Intolerance to cold
C) Loss of appetite
D) Epigastric distress
B
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Other early sensual contacts between infant and mother involve sound and smell. Nurses should be aware that despite what folk wisdom might say:
1. high-pitched voices irritate newborns. 2. infants can learn to distinguish their mother's voice from others soon after birth. 3. all babies in the hospital smell alike. 4. mother's breast milk has no distinctive odor.
The nurse is admitting a patient with possible rheumatic fever. Which question on the admission health history will be most pertinent to ask?
a. "Do you use any illegal IV drugs?" b. "Have you had a recent sore throat?" c. "Have you injured your chest in the last few weeks?" d. "Do you have a family history of congenital heart disease?"
The character of a nursing unit is determined mainly by the:
a. nurse manager c. physicians b. nursing staff d. administration
The nurse observes that a 15-year-old mother seems to ignore her newborn. A strategy that the nurse can use to facilitate mother-infant attachment in this mother is to:
a. Tell the mother she must pay attention to her infant. b. Show the mother how the infant initiates interaction and pays attention to her. c. Demonstrate for the mother different positions for holding her infant while feeding. d. Arrange for the mother to watch a video on parent-infant interaction.