Lovastatin is prescribed for a patient for the first time. The nurse should provide the patient with which of the following instructions?

A patient comes to the clinic for a checkup and shares upcoming plans to go on a vacation cruise. The patient asks for a medication to prevent sea sickness. The nurse practitioner orders scopolamine. The nurse provides education and tells the patient to be aware of which potential side effects?

A patient with Cushing’s syndrome undergoes irradiation of the pituitary gland. During the months required for the irradiation to produce its effect on the pituitary gland, the patient may be treated adjunctively with which medication?

During the night shift, a patient’s total parenteral nutrition infusion ran out, and the nurse discovered that there was no TPN solution on hand to continue the infusion. The nurse should prepare for what consequence of abruptly discontinuing a TPN infusion?

When evaluating a patient with a central venous catheter, the nurse observes that the insertion site is red and tender to touch and the patient’s temperature is 101.8° F. What should the nurse plan to do next?

The prescriber has changed the patient’s medication regimen to include montelukast to treat asthma. The nurse will emphasize which point about this medication?

All of the following statements about spatial pulse length are correct EXCEPT:

All of the following statements about spatial pulse length are correct EXCEPT:

Phased array transducer can be focused by:

A mixture of powdered aluminum and epoxy resin equal to one fourth of the wavelength that is applied to the face of the transducer is called: