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A patient is admitted to hospital after taking an overdose of citalopram tablets. Their blood plasma concentration is measured at 3200ng/L. If citalopram has a half-life of 35 hours, how many hours will it take for the plasma concentration to fall to a safe level of 800ng/L?

A three-year-old child weighing 14kg is started on amlodipine for hypertension as a complication of cardiovascular disease. Amlodipine is available as a 5 mg/5 mL sugar free suspension. The patient will be prescribed the lowest starting dose, as detailed in the BNF extract below. How many millilitres of amlodipine sugar free suspension should be prescribed for each dose? Give your answer to ONE (1) decimal place. Extract from Online BNF

A patient is admitted to A&E and prescribed meropenem 1g ampoules with instructions for nurses to administer ONE (1g) ampoule THREE times a day for SEVEN days. One 1g dose is given to the patient in A&E before the patient is transferred to another ward. How many ampoules should the pharmacy department send to the new ward to complete the seven-day course?

What is the weight in milligrams of mometasone in a 100g tube of mometasone 0.1%w/w cream?

Zone of proximal development (ZPD) is Vygotsky’s term for:

Three-year-old Ashley is putting a jigsaw puzzle together, and, as is typical of her age, she:

When 4-year-old Jared plays, he often talks to himself. This form of self-talk is used for self-regulation. Developmentalists call this:

In terms of nutrition, what a child eats affects all of the following EXCEPT:

According to your text, scaffolding techniques that heightened engagement, encouraged direct exploration, and facilitated “sense making” improved 4- to 5-year-olds’:

Which of the following statements about childhood obesity is TRUE?