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The nurse manages care for  a patient receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with conjugated estrogens (Cenestin) for severe symptoms of menopause.  Which of the following side effects will be a priority for the nurse to assess?

How does just-in-time (JIT) inventory control function?

Some individuals who are allergic to penicillin may also have a cross-sensitivity to:

When the patient is started on antiretroviral drugs for HIV, it will be important for the patient to know which of the following?

A provider has written an order for an anti-emetic medication. Which one of the following is an anti-emetic?

A patient comes to the clinic and is diagnosed with tuberculosis. The nurse realizes that which medication is a drug of choice to treat this disease?

36. A patient of average build has a mild contracture of the shoulder joint capsule. The physical therapist places a hot pack on the shoulder for 5 minutes prior to performing stretching. The physiologic effect this treatment has the potential to create is to:

A patient is being seen in an outpatient clinic for a chronic recurrent athlete’s foot fungal infection that has been resistant to topical therapy. The provider has decided to change the pharmacotherapy to a systemic medication. The nurse anticipates which drug will be prescribed?

23. True or False: Cryotherapy is minimally effective in reducing existing edema but may be beneficial in reducing the formation of new/additional edema.

32. _____________ are released from presynaptic membranes and can be inhibitory or excitatory to the transmission of nociception.