The nurse is caring for a new mother who received atropine before undergoing a laparoscopic tubal ligation. The patient tells the nurse that she is breast-feeding her baby and asks whether she can breast-feed when she gets home.
What is the nurse's best response? A) You can breast-feed when you get home because the drugs given before surgery will be out of your system.
B) You can breast-feed as soon as you get home because atropine will not cross into the breast milk.
C) Discard all breast milk for the next week and feed the baby formula before returning to breast-feeding.
D) Discard all breast milk for the next 24 hours and feed formula until tomorrow when you can nurse your baby.
Question 2
A patient has Parkinson's disease. Apomorphine (Apokyn), a dopamine agonist, has been prescribed for periods of hypomobility. What will the nurse teach the patient regarding administration of the drug?
A) The drug will be injected intramuscularly three times a day in a range of 1.0 to 1.5 mL.
B) The drug will be given intravenously, 50 mg every third day.
C) The drug will be administered subcutaneously three times a day with a dosage range of 2 to 6 mg.
D) The drug is taken orally, 20 mg three times a day.
Laparoscopy for tubal sterilization.
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
The nurse is using Standard Precautions to draw blood.
B, The nurse teaches the postoperative client to use an incentive spirometer to expand the lungs.
GI endoscopy. (a) Similar to other forms of GI endoscopy, laparoscopy involves the insertion of a sp
The nurse begins the general survey