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A nursing instructor teaches nursing students about the steps to be taken while obtaining a guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT). Which statement if made by a student indicates the need for further learning?

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A guaiac Fecal occult blood test

Step-by-step explanation:

  • "I should instruct the patient to abstain from taking nonsteroidal mitigating drugs the day preceding the test."
  • Nonsteroidal mitigating operators (typically truncated to NSAIDs) are a gathering of medications that assuage agony and fever and decrease aggravation.
  • There are almost two dozen unique NSAIDs accessible, yet they all work similarly, and that is by hindering a particular gathering of chemicals called cyclo-oxygenase catalysts, frequently condensed to COX proteins. These chemicals are answerable for the creation of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are a gathering of mixes with hormone-like impacts that control a wide range of procedures, for example, aggravation, bloodstream, and the development of blood clots.

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