The nurse is providing discharge instructions to a renal transplant recipient. The patient has a follow-up appointment the next day for routine post-transplant laboratory bloodwork, including trough levels of anti-rejection medications
Which instruction describes what the patient should do regarding the anti-rejection medications the next day? a. "Take your morning dose of medications at midnight with sips of water."
b. "Take your morning dose of medications after labs have been drawn."
c. "Skip your morning dose of medications and then resume your evening doses."
d. "Hold all doses of your medications the day you have labs drawn."
B
Medication trough levels are used to guide dosing. The patient should not take his morning dose of medications until labs have been drawn so that an accurate trough level is obtained. Transplant medication is administered at regular dosing intervals (e.g. every 12 hours) to maintain therapeutic drug levels and intervals should not be independently adjusted. Medication should not be skipped when lab is drawn. The patient should be instructed to take the medication immediately after lab work has been drawn. Medication is not to be held for an entire day as doing so places the patient at risk for rejection.
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