Answer to Question 1
C
Ginkgo interacts with anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents and may cause spontaneous bleeding. Aspirin is such an agent, and alcohol use can predispose to gastric bleeding due to gastric irritation, so both behaviors put the patient at increased risk. Ginkgo should be used with caution by individuals who consume alcohol or who have other risk factors for hemorrhagic stroke.
Answer to Question 2
D
The clinical nurse specialist role includes individual, group, and family psychotherapist; educator of nurses, other professions, and the community; clinical supervisor; consultant to professional and nonprofessional groups; and researcher. The distracters describe actions of a nurse generalist.
The patient interview often requires note taking.
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
Physical therapist assisting a patient to walk in the parallel bars.
The nurse cares for the postop client in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).
In a developmental systems approach, the emergence of social smiling at 6 to 8 weeks of age is not ...
Bilateral psoriasis on a patient’s knees.