A woman is seen in the primary care provider's office with chronic severe diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome, which has not responded to conventional therapy. Which medication is the drug of choice?
A) Rifaximin (Xifaxan)
B) Nitazoxanide (Alinia)
C) Alosetron (Lotronex)
D) Cholestyramine (Questran)
C
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A woman who is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy has been experiencing frequent headaches and has sought advice from her nurse practitioner about safe treatment options. What analgesic can the nurse most safely recommend?
A) Aspirin B) Diflunisal (Dolobid) C) Acetaminophen D) Ibuprofen
A nursing student asks the nurse why patients who have parkinsonism receive a combination of carbidopa and levodopa. The nurse will explain that the combination product
a. allows larger doses of levodopa to be given without causing increased adverse reactions. b. causes more levodopa to be converted to dopamine before crossing the blood-brain barrier. c. eliminates almost all drug side effects of both levodopa and carbidopa. d. reduces peripheral side effects by inhibiting decarboxylase in the peripheral nervous system.
The physician has prescribed a brand name drug for the client. The client tells the nurse that the medication is too expensive. What is the best plan by the nurse?
1. Help the client receive free medicine through a "patient assistance" program. 2. Ask the physician if a cheaper brand name drug may be substituted. 3. Ask the physician if a generic drug may be substituted. 4. Maintain the client on samples of the brand name drug from the physician's office.
A gene that is expressed when paired with another gene for the same trait is called
A) dominant. B) recessive. C) homozygous. D) heterozygous.