The nurse is caring for a client the day after a left total knee arthroplasty surgery. in reviewing the client's past medical history, the nurse notes that the client has a history of urinary incontinence and heart failure, which is managed with a potassium-retaining diuretic and a beta-adrenergic blocker. which prescription, if not already prescribed, should the nurse contact the health care provider to obtain?

The nurse should contact the health care porvider to obtain the client's prescription for metroprolol.

Explanation:

In the medical past history the nurse founds urinary incontinence and heart failure. For this condition, the nurse should check if the patient has been prescribed metroprolol.

Metroprolol is used to contol high blood pressure, it helps prevent strokes, or heart attacks and it also helps with kidney failure. They also work as meta blockers, which blocks epinephrine to keep the blood pressure at normal rates and reduces symptoms of heart problems.

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