The adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner is appointed to a hospital’s multidisciplinary medical ethics review committee. The nurse practitioner’s role is to:

The adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner is appointed to a hospital’s multidisciplinary medical ethics review committee. The nurse practitioner’s role is to:

Before administering a medication, what does the nurse need to know to evaluate how individual patient variability might affect the patient’s response to the medication?

The prescriber has ordered an antibiotic for a patient with a bacterial infection. The nurse provides patient education at discharge and instructs the patient to take the drug on an empty stomach. When should the patient take the drug?

A nurse is teaching a class to a group of pregnant patients. The nurse correctly teaches that the highest risk of teratogen-induced gross malformations exists during which time?

The nurse notices that one of the client’s drugs has a low therapeutic index. What is the most important nursing implication of this?