When assessing for metabolic syndrome in a client currently taking an antipsychotic medication, what item should be assessed? 

Please answer the following question based on the case study below:  What referral would be most appropriate for this client? The patient is a 29 year old, single, white female who works as a registered nurse and lives with her family. She is self referred to your office.  CC: “Increasing anxiety and obsessive thoughts.”  HPI: The patient reports feeling overwhelmed and “lost”, has a lack of energy, and a lack of interest in things she used to enjoy. She is tired all the time. She has been dealing with OCD for most of her life, but it has become increasingly harder to manage. She is checking the stove and the doors more compulsively. Whenever she drives over. bump in the road she has to go around the block to make sure she did not run someone over. Subsequently, she has been getting to work late and avoiding driving other than going to work and back. She is socially isolated. Additionally, she has obsessional fears that someone she loves is going to die.  Past Psychiatric History: Anxious as a child, often checking, diagnosed with anxiety in high school. Placed on sertraline but it made her feel “uncomfortable” so she switched to fluvoxamine and later fluoxetine. She does not know why it was switched. She stopped medication last year because she “was fine.” 

Why does the health care provider prescribe furosemide 40 mg twice a day by mouth for a patient with a history of renal insufficiency?

When caring for a patient with angina pectoris, the nurse would question a prescription for a non-cardioselective beta blocker in a patient with which pre-existing condition?

While assessing the patient, the nurse notes severe edema of the hands and feet from third spacing. The patient is having signs and symptoms of intravascular dehydration, and the total protein laboratory result is 4.6 g/dL (normal value is 6.0 to 8.3 g/dL). The nurse anticipates the health care provider will prescribe which IV solution for this patient? 

A patient is admitted with severe hypertensive crisis. The nurse will anticipate administering which medication?

A patient begins taking nifedipine [Procardia], along with metoprolol, to treat hypertension. The nurse understands that metoprolol is used to: 

When teaching a patient about a new prescription for carvedilol the nurse explains that this medication reduces blood pressure by which action? (Select all that apply). 

The nurse is working with a graduate nurse to prepare an intravenous dose of potassium for a patient on a regular medical-surgical unit. Which statement by the graduate nurse reflects a need for further teaching?

A patient with hypertension is taking furosemide [Lasix] for congestive heart failure. The prescriber orders digoxin to help increase cardiac output. What other medication will the nurse expect to be ordered for this patient?