A patient will begin treatment with posaconazole [Noxafil] to treat oropharyngeal candidiasis that has not responded to fluconazole. The provider has ordered 200 mg three times daily. Which action by the nurse is correct?
a. Administer the drug as ordered.
b. Contact the provider to discuss decreasing the dose to twice daily.
c. Discuss a 400-mg twice daily drug regi-men with the provider.
d. Suggest to the provider that this dose may be too high for this indication.
C
When given for treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis that is refractory to treatment with itra-conazole or fluconazole, the dose is 400 mg twice daily. A dosage regimen of 200 mg three times daily is used for prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections and decreasing this to twice daily is not correct.
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