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The nurse is sending a client home on ACE Inhibitors for the first time. What is the most important teaching point that can be made about taking these medications?

A practical nurse is caring for a client who has difficulty swallowing medications and is prescribed enteric-coated aspirin PO once daily. The client asks if the medication can be crushed to make it easier to swallow. Which of the following responses should the nurse provide? 

A female patient is having difficulties with an overactive bladder, the LPN will expect to give which medication?

The client receiving heparin therapy asks how the “blood thinner” works. The best response by the nurse would be:

A client has started clopidogrel after experiencing a TIA (transient ischemic attack). The desired therapeutic effects of this drug will be:

Medications such as NSAID’s (ibuprofen) can be irritating to the stomach lining. To avoid GI distress what can the nurse instruct the client to implement when taking these medications?

A nurse teaches a client about sulfonamides. Which statement by the client indicates a need for further teaching?

Drug A has a half-life of 6 hours. If 600mg is administered at 8:00 p.m., how much of the drug would be left after 24 hours? (Round to the tenth.)

Which outcome to the body would occur from receiving large doses of cholinergic drugs?  (Select all that apply.)

A chemically impaired nurse is diverting controlled substances for her/his own use. Which of the following organizations would become involved with this problem?