Question

While performing an assessment of a patient who has diarrhea, the nurse learns that the patient has been using herbal medications. which instruction will the nurse provide to help prevent drug interactions?

Answer 1

The best instruction that the nurse should provide to the patient in order to help the patient prevent drug interactions is to ask the patient if he or she could at least hold or stop the herbal medicine for a while as he or she is needed to be observed and be taken care of under their care and that the nurse should explain the information about drug interactions and as to why the patient's herbal medicines should be stopped or paused.