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When a patient has been receiving sodium nitroprusside for 1 week, the nurse should be alert
for: - Answer ✅thiocyanate accumulation, evidenced by disorientation and delirium
Your patient is taking lisinopril for hypertension. His blood pressure still remains slightly
elevated and the physician would like to order a diuretic. Which of the following diuretics would
be inappropriate to prescribe? - Answer ✅triamterene
How would the nurse expect calcium channel blockers to physiologically affect the function of
the heart? - Answer ✅Decrease AV node conduction
The patient takes insulin for diabetes mellitus. The physician orders atenolol for his
hypertension. After medication teaching, the nurse determines that learning has been effective
when the patient makes which statement? - Answer ✅"This medication can enhance the effects
of my insulin."
Your patient is receiving 40 mg of furosemide every day, enteric-coated aspirin 325 mg every
day and digoxin 0.25 mg every day. Your patient suddenly begins complaining of muscle
weakness and seeing yellow halos around lights. What are your suspicions? - Answer ✅digitalis
toxicity due to hypokalemia
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, Your patient is experiencing an emergent hypertensive crisis. The provider has ordered
nitroprusside. Before administration, you should take action to: - Answer ✅protect the solution
from sunlight/bright light by covering it up
Your patient is receiving a beta-blocker for his high blood pressure. He arrives in the ER with
complaints of severe dizziness and shortness of breath. As you obtain his apical rate, you notive
it is 40 bpm and realize the patient has taken too much of the drug. What antidote should be
administered? - Answer ✅atropine
A direct vasodilator that relaxes capacitance vessels (veins) has what beneficial effect in the
body? - Answer ✅Decreases preload
Your patient has been diagnosed with unstable angina. What is the anticipated treatment?
("select all that apply") - Answer ✅Morphine
Supplemental Oxygen
Nitroglycerin
Aspirin
In addition to hypertension, alpha-1 blockers, such as doxazosin, may be useful in the treatment
of: - Answer ✅Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH)
hydralazine and isosorbide are used in combination for heart failure patients because they
cause synergistic effects and can avoid the tolerance that occurs with using isosorbide alone.
What other beneficial fact is related to this combination agent? - Answer ✅First drug labeled
for use in a specific race (African Americans)
Which of the following diuretics is the drug of choice in the treatment of cerebral edema? -
Answer ✅mannitol
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