A patient has a new diagnosis of hypertension with a new prescription for a Beta Blocker.

Which medication would you expect to be prescribed?

A provider prescribes 2 g of a medication to give to a client in eight divided doses over the next 24h.

How many mg should the nurse administer for each dose?

An older adult patient tells the home health nurse, "My health care provider hasn't helped my arthritis at all.

I am using the chiropractor now.”. What change has the patient made?

The nurse reminds the male patient with lactose intolerance that he can avoid the unpleasant symptoms of nausea, bloating, flatulence, and diarrhea if he will avoid certain foods. What product should the patient be instructed to avoid?

A nurse is assessing a patient with congestive heart failure that has shortness of breath.

Patients with heart disease can have fluid accumulate in the lungs.

This is called.

The nurse is educating a patient with phlebitis of the left leg.

What alternative therapy should this patient avoid until the condition is resolved?

A nurse is educating a group of clients with heart disease. Treatment of heart disease includes lifestyle changes.

Which one of the following is NOT considered part of a healthy lifestyle?

The nurse is taking care of a patient who is newly diagnosed with heart disease. The patient is asking questions about ejection fraction of the heart. The nurse responds.

The nurse understands that the volume of blood ejected from the ventricles during each beat is called.

A nurse is collecting data from a client who is receiving chemotherapy and is showing manifestations of malnutrition. Which of the following indicates a Vitamin C deficiency?

A nurse is caring for a client. The client states, "I don't want to take any medication.”. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

Confusion and misinformation relative to herbal medicine can make patients reluctant to disclose their herbal use to healthcare providers. What should be the nurse's approach?