Patient teaching must include education about obtaining appropriate diagnostic tests with antipsychotic medication. Using your knowledge of antipsychotic medications,
which medication has the life-threatening side effect of agranulocytosis and pharmacists may only dispense enough of the medication until the next WBC has been obtained?
A) Clozapine
B) Olanzapine
C) Quetiapine
D) Resperidone
Question 2
The second-generation antipsychotic medications are effective in treating both the overt psychotic symptoms and the social apathy or negative symptoms that typically characterize schizophrenia.
Using your knowledge of second-generation antipsychotic medications, what is an adverse effect of second-generation antipsychotics that needs to be included in patient teaching?
A) Hypoglycemia
B) Metabolic syndrome
C) Weight loss
D) Dystonia