Symptoms of anxiety are MOST commonly treated with which of the following types of medications?
a. tricyclics
b. sedatives
c. lithium
d. benzodiazepines
D
Anxiety symptoms are most commonly treated with benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines are also used to treat insomnia. In addition, buspirone has been used to treat generalized anxiety, and beta blockers have been used to treat performance anxiety.
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Who is the legal owner of the patient's medical record?
a. Patient b. Physician c. Institution d. State
The staff educator is teaching a class on conduction problems in the heart. The educator explains that in an adult patient who has damage to the electrical conduction of the ventricles of the heart, the nurse would expect to see changes in what?
A) P wave B) T wave C) QRS complex D) U wave
What uses archetypes (clinical models of content and process) as a means of exchanging clinical documents between systems?
1. Service oriented architecture 2. HL7 3. Open EHR 4. Semantic interoperability
An elderly patient with a compression fracture of the spine says, "I've had plenty of pain in my lifetime, but never anything like this. I feel like I'm being stabbed." A nurse could correctly respond:
1. "The type of pain you're feeling is radiating pain. Because the pain originates in a nerve, it spreads to other areas of the body." 2. "The type of pain you're feeling is neuropathic pain. Instead of pain in the surrounding tissue that the nerve is relaying to the brain, it is pain caused by pressure on the nerve itself." 3. "The type of pain you're feeling is deep somatic pain. This is often caused by fractures and is more intense than other kinds of pain." 4. "Your pain must feel more intense than pain you've felt previously because your pain ‘gate' is open. It's possible that massage or a distraction like reading will help the pain."