A Patient Is Diagnosed with Asthma

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient is diagnosed with asthma.The primary care nurse practitioner (NP) prescribes an inhaled corticosteroid and an inhaled bronchodilator medication and provides education about how to use inhalers.At a follow-up visit 2 weeks later,the patient's pulmonary function tests are worse.The NP should:

• A) provide a detailed written asthma action plan for the patient.
• B) ask the patient to describe how the medications have been used.
• C) review the symptoms of an acute asthma exacerbation with the patient.
• D) teach the patient to use the albuterol more often and order an oral steroid.

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