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  In order to promote therapeutic drug effects, the Nurse Practitioner should always encourage patients to - Correct Answers: take their medication at the prescribed times. 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 ...

  cleft palate post op care - Correct Answers: post surgery: -avoid having baby suck on nipple or pacifier -place baby laterally or on stomach to help prevent aspiration and facilitate drainage -apply restraints to prevent baby from disturbing operative site -Keep the infant pain-free to decrease crying and stress on repair -Feed w/ cups, Avoid sucking on nipple or pacifier -monitor I/O's daily -Change position frequently to facilitate breathing & place on abdomen in immediate post-o...

  A patient assessment reveals distended neck veins, pulsus paradoxus, and decreased systolic pressure. This assessment is most consistent with: - Correct Answers: cardiac tamponade. The nurse is caring for a patient with severe sepsis and third-degree heart block. The patient is hypotensive. The treatment for this life-threatening rhythm change includes: - Correct Answers: transcutaneous pacing. A patient is admitted to the ICU with suspected cervical spinal cord injury following a mot...

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  The priority intervention for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is: - Correct Answers: fluid replacement. What is the sign that a pressure ulcer is beginning to develop - Correct Answers: Discoloration A 72-year-old female patient presents to the Emergency Department reporting substernal chest pain that she describes as "ripping"; it radiates into her back and is associated with cough and shortness of breath. Her blood pressure is 150/90 and her heart rate is 110. The emergency nurse anti...

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