Prescribing less-expensive generic drugs or drugs off the $4 retail pharmacy lists:
1. Increases the complexity of the pharmacoeconomics of prescribing for the individual patient
2. Increases compliance by reducing the financial burden of drug costs to the patient
3. Is not sound prescribing practice due to the inferiority of the generic products
4. Will increase the overall cost of drugs to the system due to the ease of overprescribing less-expensive drugs
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A non-Spanish-speaking nurse is working with a seven-year-old client who is able to speak English but whose family speaks only Spanish. The nurse needs to give discharge instructions regarding the client's oral antibiotics
There are no Spanish-speaking interpreters available presently, but one will be able to come in about one hour. The nurse's most appropriate intervention would be: 1. To give the discharge instructions to the parents, with the child acting as interpreter. 2. To give the discharge instructions to the child. 3. To obtain an English/Spanish translation book and use this to aid in giving discharge instructions to the parents. 4. To have the parents wait until an interpreter can be found to translate the discharge instructions.
Before administering a medication, the nurse must verify the rights of medication administration, which include:
1) right patient, right room, right drug, right route, right dose, and right time. 2) right drug, right dose, right route, right time, right physician, and right documentation. 3) right patient, right drug, right route, right time, right documentation, and right equipment. 4) right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time, and right documentation.
A client tells the nurse that she and her husband are planning to start a family soon. The nurse should provide which of the following information to the client to ensure healthy sensory functioning of the newborn?
1. Testing for syphilis and rubella 2. Importance of ingesting zinc 3. The need to limit vitamin A intake 4. Avoiding foods high in folic acid
The term for the billing of more than one prescription coverage in the correct order of payment is called
a. prior authorization. b. medication assistance. c. chargebacks. d. coordination of benefits.