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The only clinical drug currently used in the cardiac glycoside family is ____.

If a health care practitioner is unfamiliar with a drug, he or she should ____.

Your dog is diabetic and you must give her insulin injections twice a day. She is something of a spoiled princess and you want to use needles that have the smallest diameter opening as possible. The size of the opening is specified by the needle’s ____.

Patients who are vitamin K deficient or on oral anticoagulants may experience bleeding if they overdose on vitamin ____.

The two-year-old daughter of a dear friend has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor that has not responded to radiation or chemotherapy. Your friend sends you links to a clinic that claims to be able to cure “hopeless” cancers and points out the messages from families whose children have been cured. You explain that ____.

Your 73-year-old grandmother, who rarely drinks alcohol and has no history of drug abuse, is reluctant to take opioid analgesics following her hip surgery. Should she be concerned about addiction?

Neostigmine is a(n) ____.

Tom is a chronic alcoholic who is in recovery. What medication might he be given that would decrease his craving for alcohol?   

What is the proper procedure for giving a verbal medication order to a health care practitioner?

Neostigmine is a(n) ____.