The ingestion of increasingly large doses of a toxic drug will produce
A. a diminished response due to drug dependence
B. an increased response due to drug sensitization
C. a diminished response due to drug tolerance
D. no measurable change in the response to the drug
C. a diminished response due to drug tolerance
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A) The left leg is shorter than the right. B) Limited range of motion of the left hip. C) The skin over the left hip is warm. D) The skin of the lower left leg is pale. E) The client is able to bend the knee but not move toes.
The nurse is performing a musculoskeletal assessment on a client who is right-hand dominant. The variation in muscle mass the nurse expects to find is
a. atrophy. b. fasciculations. c. hypertrophy. d. tremors.
A patient who is newly diagnosed with short bowel syndrome asks, "Now what do I need to do? I'm so tired of being sick." How should the nurse respond to this patient?
1. "Dealing with this problem will be difficult in the beginning." 2. "Sometimes minor diet changes will alleviate the problem." 3. "I think more surgery is in your future." 4. "Short bowel syndrome is a long-term challenge."
Second-generation fluoroquinolones are frequently used to treat:
a. genitourinary infections. c. colitis. b. upper respiratory infections. d. syphilis