NURS 6521 (NURS6521)

A nurse is caring for a postsurgical patient who has small tortuous veins and had a difficult IV insertion. The patient is now receiving IV medications on a regular basis. What is the best nursing intervention to minimize the adverse effects of this drug therapy? A) Monitor the patient's bleeding time B) Check the patient's blood glucose levels C) Record baseline vital signs D) Monitor the IV site for redness, swelling, or pain A patient is in the clinic after 6 weeks of taking riluzole...

Teaching the parents of a school-aged child who has a new diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the tibia. The nurse should identify which of the following statements by the parents indicates an understanding of the teaching. my child will have a cast until healing is complete. My child will receive antibiotics for several weeks. My child can return to playing sports once he is discharged. My child needs to be in contact isolation. Answer: b The nurse should instruct the parent that the child wi...

1. In order to promote therapeutic drug effects, the nurse practitioner should always encourage patients to - take their medication at the prescribed times. 2. A female patient with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus has been experiencing increasing neuropathic pain in recent months, a symptom that has not responded appreciably to conventional analgesics. The patient's care provider has begun treatment with gabapentin (neurontin). How is the addition of this drug likely to influence th...

A patient is receiving carboplatin. The nurse would expect to administer this drug by which route? - Intravenous The nurse may be asked to administer which medications to a client to counteract the increase in uric acid and subsequent hyperuricemia resulting from the metabolic waste buildup from rapid tumor lysis? - allopurinol A nurse should understand which adverse effects of antineoplastic drugs are related to the death of rapidly growing cells? (Select all that apply.) - *Alopecia *Le...

A nurse is caring for a 46-year-old female patient who is taking paclitaxel for ovarian cancer. Two or three days after the infusion of the drug, the nurse must closely monitor for: - neurotoxicity. A client with a diagnosis of non-small-cell lung cancer is currently undergoing chemotherapy. At the encouragement of a family member, the client has announced to the nurse the intention to complement this treatment with a regimen of herbal remedies. How should the nurse respond to this client...

A patient newly diagnosed with hypothyroidism is prescribed Levothyroxine (Synthroid) 0.25 mg PO daily. After 6 weeks of treatment the nurse dtermines that the medication was effective if the: 1) Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level is 2 microunits/mL 2) Total t4 level is 2 mcg/dL - 2) Total T4 level is 2 mcg/dL A nurse providing teaching to a client who has just been prescribed prazosin (Minipress) which of the following client statement indicates understanding of teaching: 1) I will not...

A nurse works at a weight management clinic. To which of the following overweight patients could the nurse safely administer dextroamphetamine? - A 48- year-old Caucasian man who has adult-onset diabetes A 71-year-old man has just been prescribed finasteride (Proscar). Which of the following complaints by this patient most likely indicated a need for this drug? - "Lately, I have to get up three or four times a night to go to the bathroom." After 6 months of unsuccessfully trying to c...

• Question 1 1 out of 1 points A nurse is caring for a postsurgical patient who has small tortuous veins and had a difficult IV insertion. The patient is now receiving IV medications on a regular basis. What is the best nursing intervention to minimize the adverse effects of this drug therapy? Response Feedback: Question 2 1 out of 1 points Because the patient has small tortuous veins and had a difficult IV insertion, the patient is at high risk for infiltration of the IV site. Rec...

Question 1 A nurse educator who coordinates the staff education on an oncology unit is conducting an inservice on targeted therapies. What potential benefit of targeted therapies should the nurse highlight in this education session? Targeted therapies have the potential to damage cancerous cells while leaving normal body cells less affected. Question 2 Alprostadil (Caverject), a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction, has been prescribed to a 42-year-old patient. When providing educatio...

NURS 6521 FINAL EXAM • Question 1 A 30-year-old woman who is in the first trimester of pregnancy has 1 out of 1 points presented to her primary care provider with a 4-day history of a reddened, itchy left eye that is crusted with purulent exudate. The clinician suspects a bacterial, rather than viral, etiology. How will the patient's pregnancy affect the potential use of ciprofloxacin to treat her conjunctivitis? Response Feedback: Ciprofloxacin is contraindicated in patients who ar...