Q47. A patient has been taking a beta blocker for several months to control hypertension & has no medications left. The patient calls the clinic on Friday afternoon to request a refill, but the provider has left the clinic for the weekend. What action should the nurse take?

Q27. How soon will diuresis be expected to occur after the nurse has administered 20 mg of furosemide intravenously (IV) to a patient with heart failure?

An assembly line is designed like this. WS #1 – ABC    – 60 sec WS #2 – D         – 75 sec WS #3 – FG       – 80 sec WS #4 – H         – 85 sec WS #5 – JKLM  – 55 sec Which workstation is the bottleneck?  No calculations are required for this question.

Q26. Which medication is a potassium-sparing diuretic?

Q44. A patient was diagnosed several months ago with diabetes type 2. Recently the patient also received an official diagnosis of hypertension. How will this type of hypertension be identified?

Q46. The nurse is monitoring a patient diagnosed with heart failure who is taking diuretics as part of the treatment. What will the nurse watch for that will indicate a positive therapeutic response?

Q19. Which medication is often administered with hydralazine to reduce reflex physiologic responses to the drug?

Q4. Which class of antihypertensive agents should be avoided by patients with asthma?

Q7. The provider orders irbesartan 75 mg by mouth once daily. The pharmacy has 150 mg scored tablets available. How many tablets will be administered?

Q8. A patient is brought into the emergency department with a variety of symptoms including a blood pressure of  204/128 mm Hg. Based on the most likely diagnosis, which medication will the nurse anticipate being administered immediately?