The nurse evaluates the client's serum phenytoin levels at 16 mcg/mL what is the next
step?
Document that the pts level is in therapeutic range
10-20 therapeutic range
30-50 toxic level
What can happen when there is a abrupt discontinuation of phenytoin?
seizures, with-drawl epilepsy
A client who has been taking meds for seizure disorder is asking about the nurse getting
pregnant, what is the correct response from nurse?
Antiseizure meds are tatrogenic
The nurse is caring for a client who has Parkinson's disease taking a dopamine agonist,
which of the following would indicate that the client is experiencing therapeutic effects
of meds?
Improve ability to preform ADL's
help decrease tremors
Adverse effects: orthostatic hypotension, impulsiveness and visual hallucinations
The nurse is teaching the care giver of a client about prescribed levodopa or carbidopa,
which of the following information should the nurse include?
Dyskinesia (major adverse effect)
The nurse is performing an assessment to a pt prescribed anticholinergic benztropine,
which assessment finding indicates therapeutic effect?
decrease tremors and cogentin
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