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How should the nurse position the earpieces on a stethoscope to ensure optimum reception to obtain a blood pressure measurement?

A patient who has been taking antihypertensive drugs for a few months complains about a persistent dry cough. The nurse knows that this cough is an adverse effect of which class of antihypertensive drugs?

Use two (2) suffixes to write two (2) medical terms.

Read this scenario and answer the following question Nate F is a 56-year-old man who is visiting the dental clinic for treatment of an abscessed tooth. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1996, which he contracted from his intravenous heroin addiction. He has been through a detoxification process and in currently taking Rebetron (an antiviral drug) to slow the damage to his liver. He is in severe pain and needs pain medication, as well as a local anesthesia for endodontic therapy.  Nate takes his Rebetron by mouth. Advantages of this method of drug administration include all except:

Dental patients with left heart failure may need to be positioned in the dental chair

A drug will produce the same action or block the action of an endogenous agent. This happens in order for a drug to impact a new function of the organism.

A nurse is reviewing the medical record of a client who has been taking simvastatin for 9 months and has elevated liver enzymes. What information from the client’s dietary history should the nurse also report to the provider?

A patient with heart failure has a new order for captopril 12.5 mg PO. Before administering the first dose and teaching the patient about the drug, which statement by the patient indicates that teaching has been effective?

A hospitalized client with coronary artery disease complains of substernal chest pain. After checking the client’s heart rate and blood pressure, the nurse administers 0.4 mg of nitroglycerin sublingually. After 5 minutes, the client states, “My chest still hurts.” What appropriate actions should the nurse take? (Select all that apply.)

A patient has edema of the lower extremities. The nurse is assessing whether it is pitting and to what degree. After pressing the skin on the dorsum of the foot, the nurse identifies pitting edema that can be depressed 4 mm and disappears after 10-15 seconds?  What scale could the nurse use to document the findings?