An 84-year-old patient arrives at the office for an initial visit. The patient questions the need for colorectal screening, since 10 years have passed since the last colonoscopy. The adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner recommends:

An 84-year-old patient arrives at the office for an initial visit. The patient questions the need for colorectal screening, since 10 years have passed since the last colonoscopy. The adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner recommends:

A provider has written an order for a medication: drug x 100 mg PO every 6 hours. The half-life for the drug is approximately 6 hours. The nurse is preparing to administer the first dose at 8:00 AM on Tuesday. On Wednesday, when will the serum drug level reach plateau?

A patient asks a nurse why a friend who is taking the same drug responds differently to that drug. The nurse knows that the most common variation in drug response is due to differences in each patient’s:

Mary is drinking 1.5 liter cranberry juice daily to prevent urinary tract infection. She is also using the full strength ASA ( $325 \mathrm{mg}$ ) to ease her arthritic pain. What symptom do you think Mary would complaint most?

Medication dosages may need to be decreased for which of the following reasons? 1. Increased medication-metabolizing enzymes, 2. Liver failure, 3. Peripheral vascular disease, 4. Chronic renal insufficiency