A patient with multiple sclerosis is started on a treatment regimen with mitoxantrone. Which nursing diagnosis would have the highest priority to add to the plan of care?
1. Risk for sleep pattern disturbance related to irritability
2. Risk for infection related to depressed production of neutrophils
3. Impaired urinary elimination related to blue-green urine
4. Disturbed sensory perception, auditory, related to ototoxicity
Question 2
Mitoxantrone is prescribed for a 24-year-old woman with worsening relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. In preparing a teaching plan for this patient, which question should the nurse ask?
1. How are you managing contraception?
2. Have you ever experienced an eating disorder?
3. Do you experience spotting between menstrual periods?
4. How severe was facial acne for you during adolescence?
Nurse-patient interaction; nonveral communication
The medical assistant escorts the patient into the examination room.
Bilateral psoriasis on a patient’s knees.
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