A patient reports taking attapulgite (Kaopectate) for diarrhea over the past 4 days. What is the nurse's best action?
a. Send a stool specimen to the lab for analysis.
b. Instruct the patient to notify nursing staff about all episodes of diarrhea and save the stool for assessment.
c. Check the patient's blood pressure and heart rate.
d. Teach the patient that antidiarrheal drugs should not be taken for more than 2 days unless instructed to by their prescriber.
Question 2
A patient has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease and is taking a cocktail consisting of protease inhibitors, nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors, and nonnucleoside analogue reverse-transcriptase inhibitors.
Which statement made by the patient indicates that more teaching about the drug therapy is needed? a. Using three drugs at the same time enhances suppression of viral replication.
b. There is no problem using these drugs during the last trimester of my pregnan-cy.
c. Because this drug combination kills HIV, I do not need to worry about transmit-ting the virus.
d. If the virus becomes resistant to this cocktail, another combination of drugs may be required to reduce my viral load.
All messages must be documented and placed in the patient's chart.
A medical assistant helps a patient walk with a gait belt.
Head of a patient with tertiary syphilis.
After multiple injections of a local anesthetic, the patient developed herpetic lesions.
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