The nurse is conducting medication education for patients with hypertension. The focus of the education is on enhancing the absorption of their medications. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the patients make which statement?

ANSWER: “We need to be careful about taking the medication with certain foods”.

EXPLANATION:

The statement “We need to be careful about taking the medication with certain foods”, is a good indicator that the patients understand what he/she taught them.

Thus, some food elicits rise in blood pressure and in some cases it occurs as a result of reaction between medication and food consumed. High blood pressure patients should be wary of sauces, canned foods, unhealthy snacks, cured meats, tomato products, high table salt consumption etc.