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A client with rheumatoid arthritis takes aspirin (ASA) routinely to reduce pain. The client asks whether it is the arthritis, the aspirin, or some other ear problem that causes the bilateral ear buzzing the client is now experiencing. What is an appropriate nursing response?a. 'The ringing in your ears is a sign of otitis media.'b. 'Aspirin may have damaged your eighth cranial nerve, the acoustic nerve.'c. 'Accumulation of cerumen, or ear wax, causes ringing in the ears.'d. 'Your symptoms are an expected response to the aging process.'

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1. A client with rheumatoid arthritis takes aspirin (ASA) routinely to reduce pain. The client asks whether it is the arthritis, the aspirin, or some other ear problem that causes the bilateral ear buzzing the client is now experiencing. What is an appropriate nursing response?

a. 'The ringing in your ears is a sign of otitis media.'

b. 'Aspirin may have damaged your eighth cranial nerve, the acoustic nerve.'

c. 'Accumulation of cerumen, or ear wax, causes ringing in the ears.'

d. 'Your symptoms are an expected response to the aging process.'





 
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