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itsmyluck

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What does teaching to clients with children include?
 
  a. Advising the client and family to keep medications in readily available, convenient locations
  b. Instructing the client and family not to be concerned with side effects of medications
  c. Telling the client and family to purchase over-the-counter drugs to reduce costs
  d. Instructing the client and family to use child-resistant medication containers

Question 2

The gastric pH of children younger than 3 years is more alkaline than that of adults. Penicillin can be destroyed by gastric acidity. The penicillin dose for a child younger than 3 years compared to that for an adult should be:
 
  a. the same.
  b. higher.
  c. lower.
  d. doubled.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Child-proof medications may decrease the risk for inadvertent ingestion.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Because the child's gastric pH is more alkaline than the adult's, less penicillin will be destroyed. Therefore, the dose should be decreased.




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