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The longer-term Xanax patient comes in and states they need a higher dose of the medication. They deny any additional, new, or accelerating triggers of their anxiety. What is the probable reason?

When should you refer your patient to a psychiatric provider?

The most common cause of coronary artery disease is:

Which of the following drugs has been associated with increased risk for myocardial infarction in women?

When providing a woman with education regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) during and after menopause, the nurse should include information that low hormone levels:

Angina is produced by an imbalance between myocardial oxygen supply (MOS) and demand (MOD) in the myocardium. Which of the following drugs help to correct this imbalance by increasing MOS?

A patient who has stable angina pectoris and a history of previous myocardial infarction takes nitroglycerin and amlodipine (Norvasc). The patient asks the primary care nurse practitioner (NP) why it is necessary to take amlodipine. The NP should tell the patient that amlodipine (Norvasc):

In every state, prescriptive authority for NPs includes the ability to write prescriptions:

The primary care NP performs a physical examination on an 89-year-old patient who is about to enter a skilled nursing facility. The patient reports having had chickenpox as a child. The NP should:

The New York Heart Association and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society have described grading criteria for levels of angina. Angina that occurs with unusually strenuous activity or on walking or climbing stair after meals is class: