The patient comes to the emergency department following an overdose of aspirin, an acidic drug. What will the best plan of the nurse include?

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Question 1 of 5

The patient comes to the emergency department following an overdose of aspirin, an acidic drug. What will the best plan of the nurse include?

A. Administration of intravenous fluids to flush the kidneys B. Administration of ammonium chloride to the patient C. Administration of sodium bicarbonate to the patient D. Administration of intravenous proteins to bind the aspirin

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 2 of 5

Prior to administering medications, the student nurse reviews the therapeutic index. Which statement best describes the student’s understanding of therapeutic index?

A. The student is able to determine if the physician prescribed the best drug for the patient. B. The student is able to determine if the patients are receiving safe doses of the medications. C. The student is able to identify interactions among the drugs each patient is receiving. D. The student is able to identify the patients who will need to have serum blood levels monitored.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 3 of 5

Drug X has a median lethal dose of $30 mg$ and a median effective dose of 10. Drug Y has a therapeutic index of 4, while drug Z has a therapeutic index of 3. Which statement is accurate based on this information?

A. Drugs X and Y are safer than drug Z. B. The therapeutic index of drug X is 20. C. Drug Y is the safest of the three. D. Drug Z is the safest of the three.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 4 of 5

During assessment, the patient mentions that he recently 'sent off to a company for pharmacogenomic testing.' What nursing responses are indicated?

A. Have you changed your medications any? B. Have you talked with your physician about the results? C. Why did you do that? D. Was that test expensive?

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 5 of 5

The nurse is teaching a caregivers’ support group for caretakers of older adult patients. The focus is medication compliance. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the caregivers make which response?

A. We should crush their medicine and put it in applesauce so they will swallow it. B. We should use a medication management box so they won’t forget to take it. C. We should ask the doctor if all the medication is really necessary. D. We should give them more education about the medicine so they will take it.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

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