A client asks the nurse why the health care provider has ordered the asthma medication in inhalant rather than oral form. What is the nurse's best response?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. "Inhaling an asthma medication offers a rapid and efficient way to get the medication directly into your lungs."
2. "Inhaling an asthma medication results in an almost instantaneous onset of action, which will relieve your symptoms much more quickly."
3. "Inhaling an asthma medication will control your symptoms with smaller doses, reducing the risk of systemic effects."
4. "Inhaling an asthma medication is an effective way to get the medication right into your lungs and is also a lot less expensive than oral medications."
5. "Inhaling an asthma medication automatically increases the onset of the medication, resulting in quicker relief of your symptoms."
Correct Answer: 1,2,3
Rationale 1: Inhalation offers a rapid and efficient mechanism for delivering drugs directly to the site of action—the lungs.
Rationale 2: Delivering the medication directly into the lungs results in an almost instantaneous onset of action.
Rationale 3: Delivering the drug directly to the site allows for smaller doses of the drug, which results in a lower risk of systemic effects.
Rationale 4: Inhaled asthma drugs may not be less expensive.
Rationale 5: Inhaled medications have a decreased onset of action, resulting in quicker relief of symptoms.
Global Rationale: Inhalation is a common route of administration for pulmonary drugs because it delivers drugs directly to their sites of action. Delivering the medication directly into the lungs results in an almost instantaneous onset of action and allows for a smaller dose of drugs. Inhaled asthma drugs may not be less expensive. Inhaled medications have a decreased onset of action, resulting in quicker relief of symptoms.
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