NursingPharmacology

Potassium-Sparing Diuretic: Which Amiloride Statement Needs More Teaching?

Identify the unsafe potassium-chloride salt-substitute choice and explain every amiloride teaching option.

Question

A client has just been prescribed amiloride. Which response shows that further medication teaching is needed?

  1. Take the dose at the beginning of the day.
  2. Tell the health care team about weight loss after starting treatment.
  3. Stay away from NSAIDs.
  4. Replace regular salt with a product made with potassium chloride.

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This is a complete, meaning-preserving paraphrase of OpenStax Pharmacology for Nurses, Chapter 34 Review Question 2, with the four choices in source order. The publisher key identifies the potassium-containing substitute as the incorrect teaching statement. No laboratory values, dose, kidney diagnosis, or actual adverse event are supplied. The answer explains the education decision; it does not prescribe individualized treatment.