Your sister and her newborn will be staying with you following their discharge from the hospital. Although excited, you want to make sure your immaculate apartment stays that way during their visit. If you decide to use a substance that inhibits the growth of bacteria, what term should you look for on the label?
Spencer is taking a tricyclic antidepressant and complains o…
Spencer is taking a tricyclic antidepressant and complains of a dry mouth, drowsiness, and urinary retention. What property of tricyclics accounts for these side effects?
Thelma has restless leg syndrome that has disrupted her slee…
Thelma has restless leg syndrome that has disrupted her sleep and left her drowsy during the day. What medication might be helpful?
Rose has Type 1 diabetes and uses regular insulin. What are…
Rose has Type 1 diabetes and uses regular insulin. What are the characteristics of regular insulin?
Tess is post-menopausal and has an intact uterus. She is ver…
Tess is post-menopausal and has an intact uterus. She is very concerned about osteoporosis, as her mother had a number of painful and debilitating osteoporosis-associated fractures. What would she risk were she to take estrogen-only hormone replacement?
Rosetta has seizures that are characterized by an abrupt los…
Rosetta has seizures that are characterized by an abrupt loss of consciousness, falling, with extension of trunk and extremities, followed by alternating contractions and relaxation of the muscles. These are classified as ____.
The only clinical drug currently used in the cardiac glycosi…
The only clinical drug currently used in the cardiac glycoside family is ____.
Your dog is diabetic and you must give her insulin injection…
Your dog is diabetic and you must give her insulin injections twice a day. She is something of a spoiled princess and you want to use needles that have the smallest diameter opening as possible. The size of the opening is specified by the needle’s ____.
Patients who are vitamin K deficient or on oral anticoagulan…
Patients who are vitamin K deficient or on oral anticoagulants may experience bleeding if they overdose on vitamin ____.
The two-year-old daughter of a dear friend has been diagnose…
The two-year-old daughter of a dear friend has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor that has not responded to radiation or chemotherapy. Your friend sends you links to a clinic that claims to be able to cure “hopeless” cancers and points out the messages from families whose children have been cured. You explain that ____.