A patient will begin taking an immunosuppressant medication. The nurse learns that the patient has a history of frequent candidal infections. The nurse will expect the provider to order which drug as prophylaxis?
a. Fluconazole [Diflucan]
b. Ketoconazole
c. Posaconazole [Noxafil]
d. Voriconazole [Vfend]
C
Posaconazole is used as prophylaxis for invasive Aspergillus and Candida infections in immu-nocompromised patients. Fluconazole, ketoconazole, and voriconazole are not used prophylacti-cally.
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a. COPD b. Bronchitis c. Pneumonia d. Atelectasis
The transplant clinic social worker is completing a social history on a patient with end-stage renal disease who is being evaluated for transplant. Which statement by the patient warrants further action?
a. "I only smoke marijuana on an occasional basis." b. "I have two sisters who live within two hours of me." c. "I have attended all of my scheduled dialysis sessions." d. "My mother's side of the family has a history of cancer."
Which of the following nursing interventions should be performed first when removing gloves?
A) Grasp the outside of the nondominant glove. B) Drop the gloves into the appropriate waste receptacle. C) Ease the fingers into the gloves. D) Hook the bare thumb inside the other glove.
The National Mental Health Act was signed into law in 1946 . This bill provided training grants that funded specialty training at the graduate level
The reason that the first graduate nursing program was in the specialty of psychiatric nursing might be related to the fact that: A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable during WWII. B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed as a result of WWII. C) Deinstitutionalization spawned by the community health movement, demanding increased numbers of nurses. D) The U.S. population was rapidly aging and women entered the work force in record numbers.