Rheumatoid arthrits - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Module 9 9.1: Introduction to Specialty Medications In general, specialty medicatons are high cost medicatons used for treatng complex disease states. They can be challenging to both manufacture and administer, and they ofen require signifcant patent educaton and close monitoring to ensure their safe and appropriate use. Although specialty medicatons were once a very small piece of the pharmaceutcal industry, there has been a signifcant change over the last 20 years and especially within th...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF 49-YEAR-OLD PATIENT WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS 2 A 49-year-old patient with rheumatoid arthritis comes into the clinic with a chief complaint of a fever. The patient’s current medications include atorvastatin 40 mg at night, methotrexate 10 mg PO every Friday morning, and prednisone 5 mg PO QAM. He states that he has had a fever up to 101 degrees F for about a week and admits to chills and sweats. He says he has had more fatigue than usual and reports some chest pain...

Fffffff9  Question 2 1 out of 1 points Central obesity, “moon” face, and dorsocervical fat pad are associated with: A . Metabolic syndrome B . Unilateral pheochromocytoma C . Cushing’s syndrome D . None of the above  Question 3 1 out of 1 points An elderly man is started on lisinopril and hydrochlorhiazide for hypertension. Three days later, he returns to the ofce complaining of left great toe pain. On exam, the nurse practitioner notes an edematous, erythematous ten...

NURS 316 Patho quiz 5 NURS 316 Patho quiz 5 1 Q1 A 32-year-old female patent is admited to the floor with a superinfecton. Her orders read tgecycline (Tygacil) 100 mg IV followed by 50 mg IV every 12 hours infused over 30 to 60 minutes for 5 days. What would be important for the nurse to educate this patent about? A) Analgesics B) Anthistamines C) Contraceptves D) Decongestants C A patent with a gram-negatve infecton is being treated with an aminoglycoside. What system should the nu...