The formed elements of the blood include:

A patient is taking digoxin and a furosemide daily. When the nurse enters the room with the morning medications, the patient states, “I am seeing a funny yellow color around the lights.” What is the nurse’s best response?

The nurse is caring for a patient with an ordered laxative due to constipation. The patient explains that the drug is supposed to add bulk to the stool, facilitating a bowel movement. The nurse determines the medication the patient is describing is what?

Docusate sodium is ordered for an adult who had a myocardial infarction yesterday. The patient asks the nurse why this has been prescribed. The nurse would reply that this medication will help ease the passage of stool by which of the following mechanisms of action?

The nurse administers a dose of ondansetron. Which of the following assessment findings would indicate that the medication was effective for the patient?

A patient refuses a PRN medication. By recording the patient’s refusal and reason for declining the medication, the nurse is adhering to which of the “rights” for medication administration?

In assessing a patient before administration of cardiac medications, the nurse knows the importance of checking lab results. Which of the following labs should cause concern to the nurse?

A patient has been started on risperidone. The nurse recognizes that the drug is being effective when the patient reports which of the following?

During a teaching session about self-monitoring while taking a beta blocker, which of the following statements made by the patient would indicate that the nurse’s teaching was effective?

Shortly after entering the cranial vault the vertebral arteries unite and become the __________________________.