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jparksx · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A client asks the nurse why the health care provider has ordered the asthma medication in inhalant rather than oral form. What is the nurse's best response?

Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Inhaling an asthma medication offers a rapid and efficient way to get the medication directly into your lungs.
2. Inhaling an asthma medication results in an almost instantaneous onset of action, which will relieve your symptoms much more quickly.
3. Inhaling an asthma medication will control your symptoms with smaller doses, reducing the risk of systemic effects.
4. Inhaling an asthma medication is an effective way to get the medication right into your lungs and is also a lot less expensive than oral medications.
5. Inhaling an asthma medication automatically increases the onset of the medication, resulting in quicker relief of your symptoms.

Question 2

The admitting nurse suspects a client has moderate persistent asthma because:

Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Symptoms occur every day.
2. Symptoms occur more than one night a week.
3. Symptoms affect daily activity.
4. Symptoms occasionally affect daily activity.
5. Symptoms occur two times a month.

briseldagonzales · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 1,2,3
Rationale 1: Inhalation offers a rapid and efficient mechanism for delivering drugs directly to the site of actionthe lungs.
Rationale 2: Delivering the medication directly into the lungs results in an almost instantaneous onset of action.
Rationale 3: Delivering the drug directly to the site allows for smaller doses of the drug, which results in a lower risk of systemic effects.
Rationale 4: Inhaled asthma drugs may not be less expensive.
Rationale 5: Inhaled medications have a decreased onset of action, resulting in quicker relief of symptoms.
Global Rationale: Inhalation is a common route of administration for pulmonary drugs because it delivers drugs directly to their sites of action. Delivering the medication directly into the lungs results in an almost instantaneous onset of action and allows for a smaller dose of drugs. Inhaled asthma drugs may not be less expensive. Inhaled medications have a decreased onset of action, resulting in quicker relief of symptoms.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 1,2,3
Rationale 1: When symptoms occur every day, the asthma is considered moderate persistent.
Rationale 2: When symptoms occur more than one night a week, the asthma is considered moderate persistent.
Rationale 3: When symptoms affect daily activity, the asthma is considered moderate persistent.
Rationale 4: When symptoms sometimes affect daily activity, the asthma is considered mild persistent.
Rationale 5: When attacks occur less than two times a month, the asthma is considered intermittent.
Global Rationale: Assessment of asthma severity is based on frequency of symptoms, the number of nocturnal attacks, and presence of activity limitations. Moderate persistent asthma is diagnosed when attacks occur daily, nocturnal attacks occur more than 1 time per week, and attacks affect activity. When symptoms sometimes affect daily activity, the asthma is considered mild persistent. When attacks occur less than two times a month, the asthma is considered intermittent.