The nurse is caring for a patient who is receiving gentamicin, 250 mg and fluconazole (Diflucan), 500 mg at the same time. The nurse knows that if these two drugs competed with each other for protein-binding sites, what would this do?
A) Make the patient gentamicin deficient
B) Make the patient fluconazole deficient
C) Counteract any positive benefit the drugs would have
D) Alter the effectiveness of both drugs
D
Feedback:
Some drugs compete with each other for protein-binding sites, altering effectiveness or causing toxicity when the two drugs are given together. Nothing in the scenario would indicate that the patient would be either Gentamicin or Diflucan deficient, nor does it indicate that these drugs cannot be given together because they would counteract each other.
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