Answer to Question 1
ANS: A
Age-related pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes explain why older adults react differently to medications. OTC drugs can result altered drug outcomes since that relates to the individual's response to the medication. Age-related changes may require smaller doses of medication in older patients than in younger patients. The rule is to start low and go slow. The older a person is, the more likely he or she is to have an adverse drug reaction.
Answer to Question 2
ANS: C
The gold standard is to use the brown bag approach. The patient is asked to bring all med-ications including prescription drugs, OTC drugs, and herbal and dietary supplements. The patient may not remember all of the medications that are being taken. As each medication is removed from the bag, necessary information is obtained. A complete medication assessment includes OTC drugs, as well as herbal and dietary supplements, not just prescription medications. Your primary source of information should be the patient if she is able to provide the information; the previous provider may not be able to provide information on supplements or OTC and herbal medications. The nurse needs to include more than just prescription medications. In addition, prescribed medications do not always reflect what is being taken.
A nurse shows empathy to a client.
The nurse applies a pulse oximeter sensor on the client’s finger.
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
Chinese workers on a railway in the far West. “Without them,” Leland Stanford, president of the Cent
On March 25, 1911, as scores of young factory girls leaped to their deaths from the eighth, ninth, a
Infant: 4 weeks to 1 year.