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Nursing consideration:
Nursing Consideration:
Dosage: 50 mg IV q8 * 2 doses
Nursing consideration:
1. Do not take any new medication during therapy without consulting
physician
Nursing consideration:
Classification: Anticholinergics
Nursing consideration:
1. Tolerance may develop when therapy is prolonged
1. Instruct patient to take drug with the evening meal because taking this
enhances absorption and increase cholesterol biosynthesis
2. Advise patient to add dairy and red meat in diet to have a great source
of carnitine, but consult a physician or dietician before doing so.
Indication: Serious infections of the lower respiratory and urinary tract, skin
and skin structure infection, bone and joint infection
Nursing consideration:
Classification: Anhistamine
1. Tell patient that false negative result may occur with skin testing,
these procedures should not be scheduled until 3 days after
discontinuing use
Nursing consideration:
1. Teach patient to report sore throat, bruising, bleeding, joint pain, may
indicate blood dyscrasias
Nursing consideration:
1. Teach patient all aspect of drug usage, the danger of stopping abruptly
after long tern therapy and signs of early adrenal insufficiency
Nursing consideration:
Action: Inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis, rendering cell wall osmotically
unstable, leading to cell death
Indication: Treatment of respiratory tract infection, including pneumonia
and bronchitis; urinary tract infection, both complicated, including
pyelonephritis
Dosage: 500 mg
Nursing consideration:
3. Teach patient to report sore throat, bruising, bleeding, and joint pain
Classification: Antacid
Action: Neutralizes gastric acidity thus reduces the total acid load at GI tract
Indication: Peptic, gastric duodenal ulcer, hyperphosphatemia in chronic
renal failure, reflux esophagitis, GERD, stress ulcer prevention in critically ill
Nursing consideration: