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The nurse is caring for a client who has presented to the emergency department with atropine poisoning. What is the nurse’s priority action?

The nurse is preparing discharge teaching for four clients. Which client should be advised by the nurse that over-the-counter cold and allergy preparations contain phenylephrine and should be avoided?

A client with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) has been prescribed prazosin and asks the nurse what this is going to do for him. The nurse’s response will include what action to explain the purpose of taking this medication?

A 23-year-old female client presents at the clinic with a migraine headache. What beta-adrenergic blocking agent might the physician prescribe for the prophylactic prevention of future migraine headaches?

A student asks the pharmacology instructor to explain the action of anticholinergic agents. What would be the instructor’s best response?

The nurse is answering the call light on a client who is receiving an alpha- and beta-adrenergic agonist medication. The nurse encourages the client to limit their intake of which item when finding it on the dietary tray?

The nurse reviews drugs prescribed for a client. Which adrenergic receptor should the nurse identify that is associated with the sympathetic nervous system?

A 50-year-old client received atropine preoperatively. The nurse explains the symptom of dry mouth to client as which effect?

What assessment finding indicates to the nurse that timolol has been effective?

Relativism is a concept that holds that when an act is considered wrong then it is wrong for all people.