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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
Exercise 4
A patient newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has been given a prescription to start on an oral hypoglycemic.The patient tells the nurse she would rather control her blood sugar with herbal therapy.Which action should the nurse take?
A) Advise the patient to discuss using herbal therapy with her physician.
B) Advise the patient that herbal therapy is not safe and should not be used.
C) Advise the patient to give the prescriptive medication time to work before using herbal therapy.
D) Advise the patient that if she takes herbal therapy, she will have to monitor her blood sugar more often.
Explanation
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A. Encourage the patient to seek the gui...

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