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Responsibility for safe administration of medications requires that the health care practitioner ____.

Karla knows that when her friend took thyroid replacement, her friend lost weight. Karla has normal levels of thyroid hormones, but wonders whether taking thyroid replacement would help her lose weight as well. What should you tell her?

Nayeli has just been diagnosed with high cholesterol. What category of antilipemics is considered to be the first choice for monotherapy of high cholesterol?

Irving takes an anticoagulant.  What vitamin may cause bleeding if he takes more than 1,200 units?

Hank is getting an insulin pump. Where will it be placed?

Yasmine suffers a second degree burn on her arm in a kitchen accident. The doctor at the emergency room gives her a prescription for silver sulfadiazine cream. What is the action of this cream?

Collin was given an opioid analgesic to help control the pain from a broken nose, broken teeth, and facial lacerations he suffered in a fall. He soon becomes disoriented and violently sick to his stomach. What drug might he be given to reverse the effects of the opioid?

What type of drug is used as primary hormonal therapy for metastatic estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer in both men and postmenopausal women, as well as for palliative treatment?

Jane has sensorimotor neurologic disorder characterized by a distressing urge to move the legs, often accompanied by a marked sense of discomfort in the legs. She likely has ____. 

Yestin has open angle glaucoma, a disease in which the eye’s drainage system becomes clogged, and, as a result, pressure builds up in the eye, damaging the optic nerve and leading to blindness. What drug might Yestin be prescribed to treat this condition and save his vision?