An elderly patient's compromised nutritional status has ...

[D2AR0N]

An elderly patient's compromised nutritional status has necessitated the use of a nutritional formula. When reviewing this patient's laboratory findings, the nurse should prioritize which of the following values?
 
  A) Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
  B) Serum albumin
  C) GGT, AST, and ALT
  D) Blood urea nitrogen

Question 2

Epinephrine is indicated in the treatment of a 79-year-old patient whose blood pressure has plummeted in the postanesthesia recovery room following prostate surgery.
 
  Epinephrine should be used with caution in a patient of this age because of the risk of A) exacerbating chronic cardiac conditions.
  B) causing cerebral ischemia.
  C) increasing intracranial pressure.
  D) causing Stevens-Johnson's syndrome

[jjorrostieta]

Answer to Question 1

B
Feedback:
For patients receiving nutritional formulas, the nurse observes for weight gain and increased serum albumin. In a patient with compromised nutrition, there is less emphasis placed on BUN, liver enzymes, and ESR.

Answer to Question 2

A
Feedback:
Clinicians use adrenergic agents to treat asthma, hypotension, shock, cardiac arrest, and anaphylaxis in older adults. These drugs stimulate the heart to increase rate and force of contraction and blood pressure. Because older adults often have chronic cardiovascular conditions (e.g., angina, dysrhythmias, heart failure, coronary artery disease, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease) that are aggravated by adrenergic drugs, careful monitoring by the nurse is required.

[D2AR0N]

TYSM

[jackie]

Excellent