The nurse is caring for a patient with a severe head injury. An osmotic diuretic is ordered. The nurse understands which drug is an osmotic diuretic?

Chlorpromazine is a typical antipsychotic medication. After administering, the nurse should be monitoring the patient for which of the following adverse effects?

The nurse correctly identifies which of the following adverse effects are common among laxatives?

A patient presents to the emergency department (ED) having an acute asthma attack. An ED physician has ordered a sympathomimetic (epinephrine). The nurse expects what as the therapeutic effect of this drug?

The nurse administers digoxin (Lanoxin), a cardiac glycoside, to the client for which therapeutic effect?

The nurse is administering nifedipine (Adalat) to a client. The student nurse she is precepting asks, “What drug class does that belong to?” How would the nurse respond?

The nurse is educating a client taking sodium bicarbonate. Which of the following statements should the nurse include?

Lithium is used to treat bipolar and is thought to work because:

A nurse preparing to administer IV alteplase to a client. Which of the following interventions should the nurse plan to take?

The nurse is caring for a client who takes an antiarrhythmic agent. What would be a priority nursing assessment before administering this drug?