The nurse administers a medication to sedate the client. When evaluating the effectiveness of the drug, the nurse finds the client more agitated and anxious than before receiving the sedative, and concludes the client is experiencing what type of
effect? 1. Side effect
2. Idiosyncratic effect
3. Therapeutic effect
4. Toxic effect
2
Rationale: The client is experiencing an idiosyncratic effect because the drug caused the opposite effect anticipated, and was unpredictable. Side effects, or adverse effects, are unintended drug actions that may be tolerated for the therapeutic effect. Toxic effects occur when an overdosage or cumulative effect occurs, and are normally an intensification of the therapeutic effect.
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