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BASIC CONCEPTS A patient is prescribed an oral corticosteroid for a chronic inflammatory health problem. Which precaution is most important to teach?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS Which chemotherapy problem, experienced by a patient after the first round of chemotherapy, do you report to the prescriber to reduce the chemotherapy dose or delay the next treatment?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS For which patient should vaccination with an attenuated vaccine be avoided?

ADVANCED CONCEPTSWhich instruction is most important to teach a patient using an aerosol inhaler with a spacer?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS For which patient should vaccination with an attenuated vaccine be avoided?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS You prepare to give a patient the next scheduled dose of an opioid analgesic. The patient arouses easily but the respiratory rate remains at 10 breaths/min. What is your best first action?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS You are assigned to care for a patient with chronic low back pain. What adjustment in pain management do you expect to make?

BASIC CONCEPTSTo what cancer therapy drug class does anastrozole belong?

ADVANCED CONCEPTSA 75-year-old patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is prescribed tiotropium, an inhaled drug that must be loaded into a HandiHaler with each dose. The patient has all of the following health problems. For which problem do you suggest to the prescriber that this drug may not be appropriate?

BASIC CONCEPTSWhich responses are possible side effects of inhaled beta2-adrenergic agonists (bronchodilators)?  Select All That Apply