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The wife of a patient who has been diagnosed with depression calls the office and says, “It’s been an entire week since he started that new medicine for his depression, and there’s no change! What’s wrong with him?” What is the nurse’s best response?

The nurse is assessing a client who was given odansetron (Zofran), an antiemetic, 1 hour ago.  Which of the following findings is an adverse effect of this drug?

What does a phenytoin (Dilantin) blood level indicate?

A patient with Parkinson’s disease will start taking entacapone (Comtan) along with the levodopa-carbidopa (Sinemet) he has been taking for the last few years.  The nurse recognizes that one of the advantages of adding another drug such as entacapone to his regimen is

The nurse is monitoring a patient who is receiving an infusion of a beta-adrenergic agonist.  Which adverse effects may occur during the infusion?  Select all that apply.

For which reason(s) is/are elderly patients at increased risk for drug interactions and toxicity? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is assessing a patient for adverse effects of long term glucocorticoid therapy. Which condition would most likely be present?

Assuming the patient eats breakfast at 8:30 AM, lunch at noon, and dinner at 6:00 PM, he or she is at highest risk of hypoglycemia following an 8:00 AM dose of NPH insulin at what time?

Which principle(s) would be when teaching a patient to use a steroid inhaler? (Select all that apply.)

       Use the figure and the following description to answer the question: Which of the boxes marked 1-4 correspond to organisms that will be true breeding?