A patient with sepsis is being treated with gentamicin, and her medication regimen takes into account the phenomenon of postantibiotic effects. What are postantibiotic effects?
A) The tendency for patients to exhibit symptoms mimicking hypersensitivity after drug administration
B) The tendency for adverse effects of a drug to be masked during administration
C) The ability of microorganisms to proliferate between doses of antibiotics
D) The ability of an antibiotic to kill bacteria even when serum concentrations are low
D
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Postantibiotic effects mean that aminoglycosides continue killing microorganisms even at low serum concentrations.
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When receiving a verbal order, the Registered Nurse should perform which three tasks to ensure its accuracy?
What will be an ideal response?
The nurse is planning client instruction interventions to support critical thinking. Which of the following are characteristics of critical thinking in the client education process? (Select all that apply.)
1. Organized 2. Clearly explained with examples 3. Vague 4. Task-oriented 5. Knowledge-oriented 6. Moral and ethically focused
Eva has been diagnosed with malaria. She has also been on rifampin treatment for tuberculosis. Her physician prescribes Qualaquin for treating malaria and asks her to interrupt the rifampin doses because it may:
A. increase quinine clearance. B. induce hepatic metabolism of quinine. C. increase the absorption of quinine. D. induce a disulfiram reaction.
When two nursing assistants are transferring a patient with a transfer belt,
A. one assistant stands in front and one in back of the patient. B. one assistant stands on each side of the patient. C. each assistant holds the belt from the back. D. each assistant stands three feet away from the patient on either side.