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Complete a table/chart of the neurotransmitters. (Example table can be found on pages 421-422) Your table should include the following column headers: Neurotransmitter, Functional Class, Site of Secretion, Enhanced or Prolonged by, Inhibited or blocked by, Effects of Release, Pathology associated with (Disease). See the example below Neurotransmitter Functional Class Site of Secretion Enhanced or Prolonged by Inhibited or Blocked by Effects of Release Pathology Associated With Acetylcholine Excitatory Direct and Indirect action CNS PNS Nerve Gas Organophosphates/insecticides Botulism toxin, Barbituates Behavioral changes Alzheimer’s Disease

Before you submit this assignment please be sure that you have watched ALL of the Panopto Videos for week #3. Watching the complete content of these videos is mandatory for this hybrid course.      

A patient has an order for oral furosemide (Lasix) 60 mg.  The available Lasix tablets are 40 mg each and are scored.  How many tablets will you adminster?

Provide one regression and progression to an intervention that can be used when trying to improve Static Postural Control.

Mustang Maxx label.pdf You had some leftover Mustang Maxx that you put into a Gatorade bottle, which your neighbor’s child thought would be delicious and drank some. Which of the following should you do?

List the neuroglia of the CNS and their functions. 

Fill-in-the-blank That part of the nervous system that is voluntary and conducts impulses from the CNS to the skeletal muscles is the _______________________ nervous system.

You are working in an outpatient clinic and a patient calls to verify they are taking their medication correctly. The patient states that they only have a teaspoon at home and the medication directions are in tablespoons. You look up the patient’s medication order and note they should be taking 3 tablespoons. How many teaspoons do you instruct the patient to take with each administration?

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A child is in the clinic today with concerns of an upper respiratory infection. The nurse obtains their weight as 25 kg. The patient’s parent asks how much that is pounds. How would you respond?