During a follow-up visit with a patient recently started on Coumadin, the home health nurse is concerned after seeing an herbal remedy that enhances the effect of anticoagulants by the patient's bedside.

What is this herbal remedy?

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?

A nurse is conducting a nutritional education seminar.

The nurse knows the client understands the teaching when they state:

A nurse is caring for a client who states that his provider told him he is at risk for anaphylaxis following administration of amoxicillin and that he does not understand what this means.

Which of the following is an appropriate response by the nurse?

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 nurse is teaching a client about fat-soluble vitamins.

Which vitamins are considered fat-soluble? Select all that apply.

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 explaining different types of complementary and alternative healing modalities to a client who has chronic pain.

Which of the following healing modalities should the nurse describe as the use of needles to stimulate specific points on the body to relieve discomfort, promote health, and cure disease?

A nurse withdraws morphine 2 mg from a vial that contains 4 mg/mL to inject IM for a client.

Which of the following actions should the nurse take for wasting the excess medication?

A patient is in the ER for a suspected myocardial infarction.

The nurse sends a blood sample to the lab.

The patient asked the nurse what laboratory levels would be elevated to indicate an MI. The nurse replies:

The nurse is taking care of a patient who is newly diagnosed with heart disease. The patient is asking questions about how blood flows through the heart.

The nurse responds, when the left ventricle contracts, it pushes blood through a valve to the: