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A nurse is planning patient teaching about a newly prescribed drug. What is a priority teaching point included by the nurse to improve compliance and safety?
 
  A) List of pharmacies where the drug can be obtained
  B) Measures to alleviate any discomfort associated with adverse effects
  C) The cost of the brand name drug compared with the generic form
  D) Statistics related to Phase III testing for the prescribed drug

Question 2

The nurse, working in a pediatric clinic, admits a patient who will be traveling to a country where malaria is endemic. What is the safest treatment for this child?
 
  A) No prophylaxis is administered because of the severity of adverse effects.
  B) Call the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or local health department for the safest possible treatment.
  C) Administer extremely small doses of chloroquine.
  D) Any antimalarials in appropriate dosages can be administered.



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Answer to Question 1

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If a patient is aware of certain adverse effects and how to alleviate or decrease the discomfort, he or she is more likely to continue taking the medication. A list of pharmacies can be useful information but will not improve safety or compliance. Knowing the cost of the brand name versus the generic form could also be helpful to the patient. However, a substitution may not be allowable and the cost of a drug does not improve patient safety. Most patients are not concerned with the statistics related to drug testing and it would not improve compliance or safety even if the patient was interested in the information.

Answer to Question 2

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Although dosages for prophylaxis have been calculated to treat malaria in children, many drugs have not been proven to be safe and efficient in that population and extreme caution is needed .If a child needs to travel to an area with endemic protozoal infections, the CDC or local health department should be consulted about the safest possible preventive measures. As a result, the other options are incorrect.





 

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