The patient is anxious, agitated, and diaphoretic. Which medication can the nurse anticipate the health care provider will prescribe? Benzodiazepine, such as lorazepam (Ativan) A hospitalized patient, injured in a fall while intoxicated, believes spiders are spinning entrapping webs in the room. The patient is anxious, agitated, and diaphoretic. Which nursing intervention has priority?
Spring 2015 Study Guide RNSG 1301 Pharmacology Quiz #6 (Ch 31-36z0 Questions 1-31 and multiple response questions 1-6 ) and Ch 37-40 Answers included for 32-48 and all multiple response questions (7 total) Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. A patient with schizophrenia has been taking an antipsychotic drug for several days. The nurse enters the patient’s room to administer a dose of haloperidol (Haldol) and finds the patient having facial spasms. The patient’s head is thrust back, and the patient is unable to speak.
4. A 68-year-old male presents to the office complaining of pronounced weakness on the right side of his body and slurred speech for the past 24 hours. Based on the examination, the physician orders an MRI to investigate a possible transient ischemic attack (TIA). The range of codes that would be used for this patient would be Codes 390-459 because the treating physician ordered and MRI to rule out a transient ischemic attack. These codes are for Diseases of the Circulatory System 5.
According to articles online about half of patients with kidney failure receive treatment and are cured. Scenario B Chronic renal failure: Mr. Hodges, a 73-year-old man, has had congestive heart failure for the past 5 years. His doctor has told him that his heart is not functioning well, needing more and more medicine to maintain circulatory function. He has noticed that he
Age Specific Case Study Roberto Calderone, is an 82-year-old retired army general. He was with a myocardial infarction. He was monitored and treated with aspirin 325 mg and started on a beta blocker to control his hypertension. Several nurses have commented on him being a “difficult patient” as he is “stubborn and wants to control everything” while he is at the hospital. Mr. Calderone has been observed to order his wife to “get this” and “get that” in a rather brusque manner and when she steps out of the room, he does the same to the nurses.
Why? d. What teaching interventions would you provide to the client after the change in prescriptions you recommended? (List at least 3 interventions) 2. Mary S. is an attorney (who is 48 years old) who has suffered from epilepsy for about 25 years and is taking the medication phenytoin. You are looking at her electronic medical record and note she has missed several of her quarterly MD appointments.
Using SwabCap® to Reduce the Number of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) Dawn E Bennett Joliet Junior College Nursing 260 Using SwabCap® to Reduce the Number of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every year health care associated infections (HAIs) affect 5% of hospitalized patients in the United States. CLABSIs are a deadly HAI, with a mortality rate of 12%-25%. In 2009, the number of CLABSIs in an Intensive care unit (ICU) setting was estimated at 18,000, and for patients in an inpatient ward was an estimated 23,000. Patients receiving hemodialysis as an outpatient in 2008 had an higher rate of CLABSIs, with an estimated
Mr. R is a 76yr old male who lives with his family, has complained of daily episodes of chest pain with palpitation for the last 2 months, has been non-compliant with medications for 2 months and has had a decreased oral intake. Mr. R also complained of increased shortness of breath and unable to mobilizes due to being “out of breath” and felt fatigued when walking a short distance, he also complain of burning whilst urination, becomes distressed and therefore suffers a panic attack which are relieved with reassurance. Mr. R has excessive sweating at times, at rest, and has also noted over the last 2 months he has overall swelling to his body and a persistent cough with increased palpitations at night and regular falls with “blackouts”
Risk Assessment: Cor Pulmonale NR 282 Pathophysiology II Spring B – 2013 Cor Pulmonale Introduction My patient is a 42 year old Hispanic female with a past medical history of pneumonia and hypertension. She is a single mother with one child (son) and is employed as a cleaner in a general hospital. She denies smoking but drinks alcohol occasionally. She denies using recreational drugs. The patient presented to her physician’s office with shortness of breath, chest pain, excessive coughing, and excessive fatigue and states that, “she has fainted on occasion before”.
The numbness in his lips and face made it almost impossible for him to communicate, but the hospital staff managed to at least understand the address he gave them and they sent an ambulance. As Dr. Westwood was rushed to the hospital, his breathing became increasingly labored. The patient presented in the ED with diaphoresis, motor dysfunction, paresthesias, nausea, and an ascending paralysis that started in his legs and spread to the upper body, arms, face, and head. The patient was cyanotic and hypoventilating. Within 30 minutes of presenting in the ED, Dr. Westwood developed bradycardia with a BP of 90/50 mmHg.