WEEK 5 QUIZ v4 |Elaborated| NURS 6521 - Advanced Pharmacology-Walden University

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NURS 6521 - Advanced Pharmacology-Walden University- WEEK 5 QUIZ v4.NURS 6521 - Advanced Pharmacology-Walden University- WEEK 5 QUIZ v4NURS 6521 - Advanced Pharmacology-Walden University- WEEK 5 QUIZ ... v4.A homeless man who is well known to care providers at the local hospital has been admitted to the emergency department after having a seizure outside a mall. The man is known to be a heavy alcohol user and is malnourished with a very low body massindex. How are this patient's characteristics likely to influence possible treatment with phenytoin?A trauma patient has been receiving frequent doses of morphine in the 6 days since his accident. This pattern of analgesic administration should prompt the nurse to carefully monitor the patient'sA nurse is caring for a patient who is in severe pain and is receiving an opioid analgesic. Which of the following would be the nurse's priority assessments?An elderly woman is slated for a hemiarthroplasty (hip replacement surgery) after falling and breaking her hip on the stairs outside her home. The woman's pain in the time since her injury has been severe, and her care team has been treating it with morphine. Which of the following administration schedules is most likely to control the patient's pain?A patient with mild low back pain has been advised to take acetaminophen. The nurse will inform him that excessive intake of acetaminophen may result inMorphine has been prescribed for a 28-year-old man with severe pain due [Show More]

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