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Effects of Pharmacological Treatments on Clients Across a Lifespan Questions
Question 1 of 5
A client with chronic back pain informs the nurse he has been receiving therapeutic touch in addition to his medications. What is the nurse’s best classification of this client’s treatment?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
The nurse administers medications by various routes of delivery. The nurse recognizes which route of administration as requiring higher dosages of drugs to achieve a therapeutic effect?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
Prior to administering a newly prescribed antibiotic, the nurse asks the patient if any other drugs have been taken today. The patient responds, 'Why do you need to know?' Which nursing responses are indicated?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
The student nurse has been reading about the Human Genome Project and asks the nursing instructor how this will impact future pharmacological therapies. What is the best response by the instructor?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse is preparing to administer a medication to a patient on a medical-surgical unit. The median lethal dose of the drug is $40 mg$, and the median effective dose is $10 mg$. The nurse calculates the therapeutic index to be
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.