Questions and Answers 100%
1
Guaranteed Success | Already Rated A+
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔
Glaucoma key features - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- increased intraocular pressure (IOP)
- Peripheral vision loss ("tunnel vision")
- Often painless (open-angle)
Glaucoma NCLEX red flags - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- eye pain with nausea/vomiting
(acute angle closure= emergency)
- halos around lights
Glaucoma nursing care/patient teaching - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- administer miotics
(used to treat glaucoma, constrict the pupil. e.g., pilocarpine)
- avoid mydriatics (eye drops that dilate the pupils. e.g atropine)
- lifelong meds
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,- routine eye exams
Cataracts key features - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- cloudy, blurry vision
2
- glare and poor night vision
- gradual, painless onset
Cataracts NCLEX red flags - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- sudden vision changes (suggest
another cause)
Cataracts Nursing care/patient teaching - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- pre/post op teaching
for cataract surgery
- avoid straining post-op
- use protective eyewear
Eyedrops important information - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. If ordered, GIVE THEM
2. Wash hands, put on gloves, pull bottom eye lid down, put drops in the sac, hold
lacrimal duct, let blink eye 2-3 times and give something to dab at
T/F: Can dry eyes make people lose vision - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔yes, it's true
especially with glaucoma
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) drug examples - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Fluoxetine, Sertraline, Escitalopram
3
SSRIs primary use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Depression, Anxiety, PTSD
SSRI's nursing Interventions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- risk of serotonin syndrome
(agitation, confusion, sweating, tremor)
- Takes 4-6 weeks to work
- may increase suicide risk initially
- sexual side effect (#1 reason ppl stop taking these meds)
SNRIs (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) examples - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Venlafaxine, Duloxetine
SNRIs (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) primary use - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Depression, generalized anxiety
SNRIs (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) nursing interventions - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- similar to SSRIs
- May increase BP
- sexual side effects
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, - do not stop abruptly
TCAs (tricyclic antidepressants) examples - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Amitriptyline,
4
Imipramine
TCAs (tricyclic antidepressants) primary use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Depression,
Neuropathic Pain
TCAs (tricyclic antidepressants) nursing interventions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-
anticholinergic effects (dry mouth, constipation)
- Risk of orthostatic hypotension
- Lethal in overdose
- sexual side effect
MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) examples - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Phenelzine,
Tranylcypromine
MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) primary use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Atypical
depression (EXTREME DEPRESSION)
MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) nursing interventions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-
AVOID TYRAMINE (age food, wine pepperoni cheeses)
- Hypertensive crisis
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED