A nurse is teaching a group of nurses about Parkinson's medications. The nurse is correct to state that one side effect associated with pramipexole (Mirapex) that is less likely to occur with other dopamine agonists is
a. sleep attacks.
b. dizziness.
c. hallucinations.
d. dyskinesias.
A
A few patients taking pramipexole have experienced sleep attacks, or an overwhelming and irre-sistible sleepiness that comes on without warning.
Dizziness, hallucinations, and dyskinesias are listed as side effects of pramipexole as well as of other dopamine agonists.
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