W7: reflection
deadline
due by the end of week 7 at 11: 59pm et
directions
type your responses in a word document and submit here in bladboard
in approcimately 100-150 words, reflect upon all the medications we covered week and how the sees the
gastrointestinal and psychiatric systems. in your own words, answer the following t hat
medications that people with alzheimer's use to their semptoms? what is the case of albe r
have a working understanding of these medications?
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The nurse in a gynecology clinic is completing preoperative teaching for a patient scheduled for an abdominal hysterectomy next week. the patient states that she is currently taking 325 mg of aspirin daily for chronic joint pain, along with multivitamin. the patient has type 2 diabetes; she closely monitors her blood glucose levels. currently she is taking an oral hypoglycemic agent. the nurse advises her to ask the anesthesiologist whether she should take this medication the morning of surgery. q1. the nurse instructs the patient to stop taking the aspirin. what is the rationale for this action. q2. why is it important to assess the patient of use of herbal products prior to surgery. q3. the patient asks how surgery could affect her blood glucose; how should the nurse respond?