GCC Pharmacology
Total Questions : 52
Showing 10 questions, Sign in for moreThe nurse is instructing a patient who will take psyllium (Metamucil) to treat constipation.
What information will the nurse include when teaching this patient?
The client is 34 years old and has recently started taking theophylline.
The nurse knows that medication teaching has been successful when the client agrees to what activity?
A college student with migraine headaches that cause nausea and vomiting has been prescribed trimethobenzamide.
The nurse should caution the student to avoid using which substance?
The nurse teaches the client to best promote optimal GI function by including what in the daily routine?
A client who has chronic bronchial asthma has had a mast cell stabilizer prescribed.
What drug would the provider prescribe?
The home care nurse is caring for an older adult client who has type 1 diabetes. The client has visual impairment and cannot read the numbers on the syringe when preparing insulin for administration nor afford the cost of prefilled auto syringes.
What strategy might the nurse use to help this client comply with insulin needs between visits?
The nurse is caring for a client with renal dysfunction who requires an oral antidiabetic agent.
What drug will the nurse expect to see ordered?
A client with type 2 diabetes presents at the clinic for a routine follow-up appointment. The client asks the nurse whether he or she can take the herbal supplement ginseng.
What is the correct response by the nurse?
The client, newly diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy, asks what caused this disorder.
What is the nurse’s best response?
The client, newly diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy, asks what caused this disorder.
What is the nurse’s best response?
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