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kfurse · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Your adolescent male client is concerned about delayed puberty. His father told him that as a teenager, the father himself was small and went through puberty later than his peers. The client's father suffered from which of the following?

1. short stature
2. gynecomastia
3. either chronic renal or cardiac disease
4. constitutional delay of puberty

Question 2

A patient is scheduled to have a prothrombin time blood test. What must the nurse include on the requisition form?

a. age of the patient c. medications the pa-tient is taking
b. diagnosis d. foods to which the patient is allergic

Koolkid240 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: 4

Answer to Question 2

C
Factors that increase a prothrombin time blood test include alcohol intake and medications. Factors that could decrease a prothrombin time blood test include a high-fat diet as well as medications. The nurse should document on the requisition form the medications the patient is currently taking.