13. Priority Decision: While the nurse is obtaining a health history for a patient, the patient tells the nurse that he uses a number of herbs to maintain his health. What is the most important thing the nurse can do to address the patient’s use of these products?

13. Priority Decision: While the nurse is obtaining a health history for a patient, the patient tells the nurse that he uses a number of herbs to maintain his health. What is the most important thing the nurse can do to address the patient’s use of these products?

List at least three behaviors or practices that can contribute to insomnia.

Which medication is a nonamphetamine wake-promotion drug?

Pain has been defined as “whatever the person experiencing the pain says it is, existing whenever the patient says it does.” This definition is problematic for the nurse when caring for which type of patient?

List in order the nociceptive processes that occur to communicate tissue damage to the CNS. No. 1 is the first process and No. 4 is the last process.