In the Emergency Room a Nurse Learns That a Patient

question 24

Multiple Choice

In the emergency room a nurse learns that a patient has recently taken a large amount of the drug PCP.The nurse should be ready to provide interventions for:

• A) acute psychosis, agitation, and violence.
• B) hypotension, sedation, and respiratory depression.
• C) heightened sensory perceptions, dizziness, and ataxia.
• D) paranoid thinking, hyperthermia, hyperactivity, and arrhythmias.

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