The physician orders pentoxifyline (trental) for the patient with peripheral vascular disease. the nurse has completed medication education and determines that further education is warranted when the patient makes which statement?

I like to soak my feet in the hot tub everyday.

Explanation:

A patient with peripheral vascular disease should examine his feet everyday for redness,dryness or cuts. If patient cannot do it then someone from his family must help him. Because decreased sensation will make him unable to tell the temperature of the water hence he should avoid hot tubs.

to prevent people from getting the ebola virus, countries around the world paid to doctors develop a new vaccine. now that the vaccine has been made, doctors will need to experiment on a large number of people to find out if it works safely.

what is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the ebola vaccine?

meditation is a practice of sitting still and quiet for minutes or even hours. it has been practiced for thousands of years and is even a part of religious practices for some people. carefully controlled, repeated measurements of brain activity have shown that meditation does increase certain chemicals in the brain and even grows the part of the brain that people connect with their current surroundings and activities.

are claims about the effects of meditation most likely scientific or pseudoscientific?

not pseudoscientific, because people have made claims about it but scientific observations have not been made