In the emergency room a nurse learns that a patient has recently taken a large amount of the drug PCP.The nurse should be ready to provide interventions for:
A) acute psychosis, agitation, and violence.
B) hypotension, sedation, and respiratory depression.
C) heightened sensory perceptions, dizziness, and ataxia.
D) paranoid thinking, hyperthermia, hyperactivity, and arrhythmias.

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PCP ingestion often produces an acutely psychotic state in which the patient is markedly agitated.Violence toward self or others is common.Because the drug produces anesthesia,the patient may be unaware of pain.

In the Emergency Room a Nurse Learns That a Patient