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stephzh · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

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