Question: The nurse administers a prescribed dose of intravenous verapamil to a patient with a baseline blood pressure (BP) of 210/110 mm Hg at 0800. Which BP reading would the nurse expect to see 15 minutes after administration? The BP will start to increase, returning to baseline within 10 to 20 minutes. The BP will continue to decrease over the next hour. The BP will stay near the same as the initial reading. The BP will rapidly decline to near normal readings by 0820.