Exam 22: Drugs Used to Treat Hypertension

The nurse has provided information to a patient with diabetes who has been prescribed a beta-adrenergic blocker.Which statement by the patient indicates a need for further teaching?

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

Which is true about postural hypotension during therapy with direct vasodilators?

Hydralazine,a direct vasodilator,is used to treat hypertension associated with which condition?

A patient asks the nurse how amlodipine (Norvasc)works to reduce the blood pressure.Which response will the nurse provide?

The nurse is preparing to assess blood pressure on a patient who has had two prior readings of 160/100.Physician's notes from a prior visit indicate that the patient is suspected to have hypertension.When reassessing this patient for hypertension,the nurse will do what?(Select all that apply.)

Which physiologic response will the nurse expect to assess in patients taking hydralazine (Apresoline)?

When displayed by the patient,which symptom would be most indicative to the nurse to withhold a recently prescribed beta-adrenergic blocker?

Which agents are preferred for the initial treatment of hypertension?

Which nursing assessment confirms that the angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB)that a patient is taking is effective?

Which statement(s)concerning the use of antihypertensive therapy for the treatment of hypertension would be considered true?(Select all that apply.)

Which complication(s)is/are associated with uncontrolled hypertension?(Select all that apply.)

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

The nurse instructs the patient to avoid the sudden discontinuation of beta-adrenergic blockers so as to avoid which symptom?

Which statement(s)about diuretics is/are true?(Select all that apply.)

A patient who has just begun taking an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)inhibitor calls the nurse and reports feeling very dizzy when standing up and asks if the medication should be discontinued.What is the nurse's best response?

Prior to the administration of a beta-adrenergic blocker,the nurse notes the patient to have a heart rate of 52 beats/min,peripheral edema,crackles in the bases of the lungs,and mottled skin.Which is the priority nursing action?

Which medication lowers blood pressure by directly inhibiting renin?

How does propranolol (Inderal)control hypertension?

The nurse is providing instruction to a patient who was recently prescribed an ACE inhibitor for hypertension.Which is an adverse effect of this medication?