The adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner evaluates a patient with cold symptoms who reports smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day and shows no interest in quitting. The nurse practitioner’s most appropriate approach is to treat the cold symptoms and:

The adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner evaluates a patient with cold symptoms who reports smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day and shows no interest in quitting. The nurse practitioner’s most appropriate approach is to treat the cold symptoms and:

A patient is receiving intravenous gentamicin. A serum drug test reveals toxic levels. The dosing is correct, and this medication has been tolerated by this patient in the past. Which could be a probable cause of the test result?

A nurse provides teaching to a patient who will begin taking a drug with a known risk of hepatotoxicity. Which statement by the patient indicates a need for further teaching?

An elderly client is taking a drug that is highly protein-bound (98\%). Several days later, he also begins taking a second drug that is also $98 \%$ protein-bound and competes for the same albumin binding sites. The effect of the first drug would be:

Which of the following nursing actions would be most appropriate for ensuring client safety with a medication that has a low therapeutic index?