Prescribing physician

The physician prescribes 1 g of Mefoxin (cefoxitin) for parenteral administration. Mefoxin is available in a solution of250 mg/1 mL. What amount of Mefoxin would the nurse prepare ... 

The physician prescribes naltrexone (ReVia) 25 mg PO initially. The nurse is to observe the patient carefully and if no withdrawal signs appear, 100 mg PO of the drug is prescribed every other day. On hand is naltrexone 50-mg tablets. The nurse administers as the initial dose. 

The physician prescribes norepinephrine a potent vasopressor, to be administered to a patient in shock. 

The obvious problem with prescribing placebos is the fact that it generally entails deception. When physicians prescribe placebos, they don t tell their patients that the treatment is a placebo.13 Instead, the patients are led to believe that they are receiving an active treatment. This raises a serious ethical question. Is it ethical to deceive patients if the deception is likely to make them better ... 

If a physician prescribes 1V2 grains of phenobarbital sodium from the Eli Lilly Company, how many grams of drug would it contain ... 

A physician prescribes tetracycline suspension for a patient to be taken in doses of two teaspoonfuls four times a day for four days, and then one teaspoonful four times a day for two days. How many milliliters of the suspension should be dispensed to provide the quantity for the prescribed dosage regimen ... 

A physician prescribes an ophthalmic suspension to contain 100 mg of cortisone acetate in 8 mL of normal saline solution (NSS). The pharmacist has a 2.5% suspension of cortisone acetate in NSS. How many milliliters of this and how many milliliters of NSS should be used in preparing the medication order ... 

If a physician prescribes 5 units of insulin to be added to a liter IV solution of D5W and administered to a patient over an 8-hour period, how many drops per min should be administered using an IV set that delivers 10 drops per mL ... 

For a five-year-old child weighing 25 kg and suffering from tachycardia, a physician prescribed 20 mcg/kg/min lidocaine. The instruction was to add 200 mg of lidocaine in 200 mL of D5W and administer at a rate of 30 mL per hour. The available drug is lidocaine 1 g/25 mL. Check if the dilution factor is accurate. 

For a three-year-old child weighing 27 kg and suffering from tachycardia, a physician prescribed 20 mcg/kg/min lidocaine. The instruction was to... 

A patient s kidney stones are composed primarily of calcium oxalate, CaC204. The patient s physician prescribes a medicine that is basic, and advises the patient to drink plenty of water. Explain why this is a suitable treatment. 

Should patients be referred to psychiatrists or primary care physicians Our bias is that the referral should almost always be to a psychiatrist. The patient is already seeing a specialist, the therapist, for psychotherapy and deserves the advantage of seeing a specialist for pharmacotherapy. This is not to suggest that certain primary care physicians, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners are not skilled pharmacotherapists. In fact, nonpsychiatric physicians prescribe the majority of psychotropic medications, particularly antidepressants and antianxiety medicines. 

Q98 The patient informs the pharmacist that the physician prescribed the medicine for a urinary tract infection. What non-phormaceutical... 

Antidepressant prescribing was less common (34%) when standardized patients presented with adjustment disorder symptoms. However, here the role of brand-specific DTCA was more powerful. Physicians prescribed an antidepressant for 55% of patient encounters involving a brand-specific... 

Gray J. Changing physician prescribing behaviom. Canad J Chn Pharmacol 2006 13(l) e81-4. 

A mother calls to teU you that her week-old baby is having convulsions. She says the baby exhibited signs of a serious ear infection soon after birth. A physician prescribed penicillin G that apparently was well tolerated. The signs and symptoms of the ear infection appeared to be greatly reduced, but the baby began to have convulsions about an hour after receiving the last injection of penicillin. What would you advise the mother to do ... 

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