ADVANCED CONCEPTS A hospitalized patient prescribed nifedipine XL (Procardia) 60 mg once a day informs you that at home he was taking nicardipine (Cardene) 20 mg three times a day and thinks this is the wrong drug. What is your best action?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS Which statement by a patient prescribed enalapril (Vasotec) indicates the need for additional teaching?

Consider the code below.   // A typical account has a balance that is a result of summing a sequence of transactions (or amounts) public class Account {               private int balance;               private List amounts;                 // Requires: true               // Effects: Initializes this to have a zero balance and an empty sequence of transactions               public Account() {                              amounts = new ArrayList();                              balance = 0;                              if (repOk() == false) { System.out.println(“Account(): rep-inv violated”); System.exit(-1); }               }               // Requires: true               // Effects: append amount to the sequence of transactions, and add it to balance               public void customerTransaction(int amount) {                              amounts.add(amount);                              balance += amount;                              if (repOk() == false) { System.out.println(“customerTransaction(): rep-inv violated”); System.exit(-1); }               }               public int getBalance() { return balance; }                   // Rep-invariant1:  a) amounts != null               //                               b) balance = sum of all amounts.get(i), where 0 = 0          boolean repOk() {                                                   }                                                                                                      (1 pt) Implement repOk() based on Rep-Invariant1.   (1 pt) Give 2 example values for balance and amounts that do not violate Rep-invariant1. For each example, provide the client code.   (0.5 pt) Give 2 example values for balance and amounts that do violate Rep-invariant1.   (1 pt) Consider an updated Rep-invariant2. Implement repOk() based on it. // Rep-invariant2:   a) amounts != null //                               b) balance = sum of all amounts.get(i), where 0 = 0          //                               d) amounts.get(i) cannot be 0, where 0

BASIC CONCEPTS A patient who has a serious chronic disorder (epilepsy) has been taking a drug to control it that has a moderate likelihood of increasing the risk for birth defects or fetal damage. She tells you that she would like to have a child. What is your best response?

BASIC CONCEPTS What is the action of the biguanide class of antidiabetic drugs that lowers blood glucose levels?

ADVANCED CONCEPTS Which statement by a patient prescribed enalapril (Vasotec) indicates the need for additional teaching?

The nurse is administering an intradermal skin test injection to a patient. Where should the nurse place the needle?

BASIC CONCEPTS What precaution do you need to take when a patient is prescribed a drug that has a “black box warning?”

An end-tidal carbon dioxide detector connected to the end of a nasogastric tube indicates the presence of carbon dioxide in the tube. What is your best interpretation of this finding?

BASIC CONCEPTS A 25-year-old patient is prescribed a drug for acne for 6 months that is teratogenic. Which precaution is most important to teach this patient?