with NGN Questions and Answers
(Verified Revised Full Exam)
1. When a patient has been receiving sodium nitroprusside for 1 week, the Nu
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2. Your patient is taking lisinopril for hypertension.His blood pressure stillrem
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ains slightly elevated and the physician would like to order a diuretic. Which
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of the following diuretics would be inappropriate to prescribe
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3. How would the Nurse expect calcium channel blockers to physiologicallyaf
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fect the function of the heart
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,4. The patient takes insulin for diabetes mellitus. The physician orders atenolol
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for his hypertension. After medication teaching, the Nurse deter-
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mines that learning has been effective when the patient makes which state-
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5. Yourpatientisreceiving40mgoffurosemideeveryday,enteric-coatedas-
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pirin 325 mg every day and digoxin 0.25 mg every day.Your patient suddenly
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begins complaining of muscle weakness and seeing yellow halos around light
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s.What are your suspicions
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>>> digitalis toxicity due to hypokalemia
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6. Yourpatientisexperiencing anemergenthypertensive crisis.Theproviderh
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as ordered nitroprusside. Before administration, you should take action to
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, 7. Your patient is receiving a beta-
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re dizziness and shortness of breath. As you obtain his apical rate, you notive it
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is 40 bpm and realize thepatient has taken too much of the drug. What antido
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te should be adminis- tered
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8. A direct vasodilator that relaxes capacitance vessels (veins) has whatb
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9. Your patient has been diagnosed with unstable angina.What is the antici-
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pated treatment? ("select all that apply"):
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