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Urinary Health Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

Welcome to the Urinary Health Quiz! This quiz is designed to assess your understanding of important concepts related to urinary health medications, side effects, and patient care post-kidney transplant. Each question focuses on essential nursing responsibilities and pharmacology that can help improve patient outcomes.

Test your knowledge with 5 carefully crafted questions that cover topics such as:

Tacrolimus and kidney transplant care
Identifying adverse effects of common medications
Understanding urine changes due to medications
Recognizing therapeutic effects of treatments like epoetin alfa
Correct administration techniques for IV antibiotics

5 Questions1 MinutesCreated by MonitoringHealth23

Tacrolimus is prescribed for a client who underwent a kidney transplant. Which instruction should the nurse include when teaching the client about this medication?

Eat at frequent intervals to avoid hypoglycemia

Take the medication with a full glass of grapefruit juice

Change positions carefully due to risk of orthostatic hypotension

Take the oral medication every 12 hours at the same time every day

The nurse is reviewing the laboratory results for a client receiving tacrolimus. Which laboratory result would indicate to the nurse that the client is experiencing an adverse effect of the medication?

Potassium level of 3.8

Platelet count of 300,000

Fasting blood glucose of 200

WBC count of 6000

The nurse receives a call from a client concerned about eliminating brown-colored urine after taking nitrofurantoin for a urinary tract infection. The nurse should make which appropriate response?

�Continue taking the medication; the brown urine occurs and is not harmful”

�Take magnesium hydroxide with your medication to lighten urine color”

�Discontinue taking the medication and make an appointment for a urine culture”

�Decrease your medication to half the dose, because your urine is too concentrated”

A client with chronic kidney disease is receiving epoetin alfa. Which laboratory result would indicate a therapeutic effect of the medication?

Hematocrit of 33%

Platelets of 400,000

WBC 6000

Bun of 15

A client with a UTI is receiving ciprofloxacin by IV route. The nurse appropriately administers the medication by performing which action?

Infusing slowly over 60 minutes

Infusing in a light protective bag

Infusing only through a central line

Infusing rapidly as a direct IV push medication

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