A female patient diagnosed with chronic atrial flutter has been prescribed verapamil in conjunction with digoxin to control ventricular rate. To enhance the therapeutic effect of the drug, the nurse will instruct the patient to
A) take the medication with meals.
B) avoid grapefruit and grapefruit juice.
C) take an aspirin every day.
D) avoid fresh fruit.
D
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A) Elevated body temperature B) Weight gain C) Bradycardia D) Hypertension E) Sleepiness
The nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with infective endocarditis and awaiting blood culture results. The client asks, "Where did I pick up these bacteria?" The nurse is most safe to speculate which of the following?
A) From droplets from a cough B) From the fecal–oral route C) From ingestion of a food D) From a break in the skin
The person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may require as much as ______ times the kilocalories that a healthy person needs for respiratory effort
1. 2 2. 5 3. 7 4. 10
You are the nurse working at a homeless shelter. You begin working with a homeless person who has been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia. This client believes that everyone is trying to poison him
He comes to the shelter once or twice a week to eat the evening meal, which is soup. This client believes that soup is the only food that is not poisoned. An appropriate short-term outcome for this client would be that the client will: a. have decreased or absent delusions within 2 weeks b. agree to take antipsychotic medication daily c. eat food other than soup within 1 week d. agree to meet with the nurse when he comes to eat