The nurse is providing teaching about topical medications for a group of patients who have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Which medication should the nurse review as being a topical preparation?
1. ketoprofen
2. naproxen
3. capsaicin
4. celecoxib
Question 2
A patient diagnosed with Paget disease has been prescribed pamidronate 90 mg over 3 days. Medication instructions state to mix 30 mg of the drug in 500 mL NS and administer over 4 hours.
This administration should be repeated for 3 days for a total of 90 mg of drug. At what IV rate, in mL/hr, should the nurse run this infusion?
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.
Nurse-patient interaction; nonverbal communication
A parish nurse checks the blood pressure of a church member
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Patient teaching: hair and scalp assessment
Patient teaching: abdominal assessment
Principal component analysis of blood plasma metabolites in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients