The Nurse Should Encourage a Client Being Treated with Corticosteroids

question 28

Multiple Choice

The nurse should encourage a client being treated with corticosteroids for an autoimmune disease to have frequent examinations by an ophthalmologist because corticosteroids increase the risk of:

• A)muscle weakness secondary to hypokalemia.
• B)glaucoma.
• C)sodium and water retention.
• D)bone fractures.

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Definitions:

Incomplete Dominance

Incomplete dominance is a genetic situation in which neither allele is dominant, resulting in an offspring with a phenotype that is a blend of the parental traits.

Codominance

A genetic scenario where two alleles are both expressed equally in the phenotype of the heterozygote, instead of one being dominant over the other.

Epistasis

A genetic interaction where the effect of one gene is modified by one or several other genes, which can mask or suppress the expression of the first gene.

Test Cross

A genetic experiment involving the breeding of an individual of unknown genotype with a homozygous recessive individual, to determine the unknown genotype.