NURS6512 week 2 quiz:Your patient is currently taking 2.5 mg of Mounjaro SC weekly. You want to increase the dose. What dose should you prescribe? What is the maximum weekly dose?

 

Question 1 pts

Your patient is currently taking 2.5 mg of Mounjaro SC weekly. You want to increase the dose. What dose should you prescribe? What is the maximum weekly dose?

Question 2 pts

Utilizing the pill identifier, enter the following characteristics to identify the medication. What medication is identified?

Question 3 pts

What are the empiric treatment recommendations for H. Pylori?

Question 4 pts

What are the Black Box warnings for Lexapro?

Question 5 pts

What are the major adverse effects of gabapentin?

Question 6 pts

Click on Condition, Click on Gastroenterology, Click on Colon, Click on Acute Pancreatitis.  What is the current guideline cited?

Question 71 pts

Should Lisinopril be given to a pregnant women? What complications have been identified?

Question 8 pts

The medical assistance sees that a patient is coming in today for a Cabenuva injection so she sets the medication out of the refrigerator at 8 am. While cleaning up at the end of the day (5 pm), you find the medication laying on the counter. What should you do with the medication? (Look up administration information for Cabenuva)

Question 9 pts

What are the adverse effects of Metformin?

Question 101 pts

Utilizing the interaction checker, identify any interactions of the following medications:

Ibuprofen, lisinopril, trimethoprim

 

Solution:

Your patient is currently taking 2.5 mg of Mounjaro SC weekly. You want to increase the dose. What dose should you prescribe? What is the maximum weekly dose?

  • For a patient currently taking 2.5 mg of Mounjaro SC weekly, the next step in dosage increase would be to 5 mg once weekly. The dosage can be increased in increments of 2.5 mg after at least 4 weeks on the current dose, with a maximum weekly dose of 15 mg .