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jazziefee

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on: Jun 27, 2018
A female patient asks the nurse why she is always asked if she is pregnant before having an X-ray. What should the nurse explain to the patient?
 
  A) Radiation to a fetus can cause a malignancy..
  B) It is just something that we are expected to do..
  C) It identifies how much radiation your body can stand..
  D) It determines how long you can be in the radiation room..

Question 2

The nurse is teaching the student nurse the factors that affect the pharmacodynamics of the drugs they are administering. Which of the following is a factor affecting this property of drugs?
 
  A) Immature body systems
  B) Weight
  C) Body surface
  D) Body composition


snackralk

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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Radiation during intrauterine life is a documented cause of leukemia. Radiation of the thyroid in infancy is known to cause thyroid cancer later in life. Asking a female patient about pregnancy status is not something that a nurse is expected to perform. Asking a female patient about being pregnant is not done to determine how much radiation the body can stand or determine how long the patient can be in the radiation room.

Answer to Question 2

A
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Although a drug's mechanism of action is the same in any individual, the physiologic immaturity of some body systems in a child can affect a drug's pharmacodynamics (behavior of the medication at the cellular level). The child's age, weight, body surface area, and body composition also can affect the drug's pharmacokinetics (movement of drugs throughout the body via absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion).


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