The nurse is caring for a patient who comes to the clinic with tinea corporis, for which the prescriber orders clotrimazole. What education about this medication should the nurse provide?
a. Use the medication over the entire body once a week for 1 month.
b. Sun exposure will delay the drug's effects.
c. Continue the therapy for at least 1 week after the symptoms have cleared up.
d. This drug is effective after a single application.
Question 2
An OB/GYN nurse is teaching a class on medications that affect uterine function.
The nurse asks the class, For what purpose or purposes are tocolytic agents used? Which response by a mem-ber of the class would indicate a need for further teaching? Tocolytics are used to a. augment labor.
b. control postpartum bleeding.
c. induce abortion.
d. suppress preterm labor.
B, The nurse teaches the postoperative client to use an incentive spirometer to expand the lungs.
Patient Teaching Methods
A goniometer is used to measure range of motion of the patient’s arm.
Head of a patient with tertiary syphilis.