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🔷 Request a prescription for an antiemetic medication The client reports nausea and poor intake, which may worsen hydration status and delay recovery from the infection.

🔷 Supporting comfort and adequate nutrition is essential because inadequate intake can impair immune response.

🔷 Requesting an antiemetic is an appropriate nursing action to promote symptom control and improve tolerance of oral medications.

🔷 Place the client on contact precautions. By Day 3, the client has developed multiple loose stools, raising concern for Clostridioides difficile infection, especially after receiving antibiotics.

🔷 Contact precautions help prevent transmission of diarrhea-associated pathogens to other clients and staff.

🔷 This is a safety-focused intervention until the cause of diarrhea is ruled out.

🔷 Clarify the prescription for amoxicillin with the provider. The client has a documented allergy to penicillin, and amoxicillin is a penicillin-class antibiotic that may cause an allergic reaction.

🔷 Administering this medication without clarification places the client at risk for hypersensitivity or anaphylaxis.

🔷 The nurse must verify a safe alternative before giving any penicillin-related drug.

Hold the dose of levothyroxine.

🔷 There is no indication of adverse effects or contraindications to levothyroxine in the current assessment.

🔷 This medication should not be held unless parameters or symptoms warrant it.

Ensure the client wears a surgical mask outside their room.

🔷 Surgical masks are required for airborne or droplet precautions, not for contact precautionsrelated to suspected C. difficile.

🔷 The client’s symptoms do not indicate a respiratory infection requiring masking.

Recommend increasing the dose of metoprolol.

🔷 The client’s blood pressure and heart rate are stable and do not suggest a need for increasedantihypertensive therapy.

🔷 Adjusting the dose without clinical justification could lead to hypotension or bradycardia.