While reviewing a newly admitted older patient's medication ...

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While reviewing a newly admitted older patient's medication history the nurse notes that the patient has been taking a beta-blocker for many years despite no apparent history of hypertension or cardiac disease.
 
  What action should the nurse first take? A) Hold the drug in the short term until an indication is determined
  B) Monitor the patient's blood pressure and apical heart rate closely
  C) Request that the physician providing care reconsider the use of the drug
  D) Investigate and provide non-pharmacologic measures to replace the drug

Question 2

________ are produced in the seminiferous tubules and stored in the epididymis.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Answer to Question 1

C
Feedback:
In the effort to minimize polypharmacy in older adults, it is important to determine whether a drug is really needed. It would be prudent for the nurse to raise the issue with the physician responsible for the patient's medications in the hospital setting. Close BP and HR monitoring is likely not necessary and it would be inappropriate for the nurse to independently replace or hold the drug.

Answer to Question 2

Sperm

The two oval testes (gonads) are enclosed in the scrotum, a saclike structure that lies suspended from the exterior abdominal wall. This position keeps the temperature in the testes below normal body temperature, which is necessary for viable sperm production and storage. Each testis contains one to three coiled seminiferous tubules that produce the sperm cells.