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A client admitted for treatment of a gastric ulcer is being prepared for discharge on antacid therapy. Discharge teaching should include which instruction?
"Continue to take antacids even if your symptoms subside." p732
The nurse is performing an assessment for a patient who presents to the clinic with a lip lesion. The lesion is erythemic, is fissuring, and has white hyperkeratosis. What does the nurse suspect that these findings are characteristic of?
Actinic cheilitis
The nurse is obtaining a history on a patient who comes to the clinic. What symptom described by the patient is one of the first symptoms associated with esophageal disease?
Dysphagia
The nurse is caring for a comatose patient and administering gastrostomy feedings. What does the nurse understand is the reason that gastrostomy feedings are preferred to nasogastric (NG) feedings in the comatose patient?
Gastroesophageal sphincter is intact, lessening the possibility of regurgitation.
A patient has been diagnosed with Zenker's diverticulum. What treatment does the nurse anticipate educating the patient about?
Surgical removal of the diverticulum p728