You are getting report at 7 a.m. from the night shift RT abo…
You are getting report at 7 a.m. from the night shift RT about the treatment for a patient with CF. The RT hands you a unit dose (without its foil packaging) of dornase alfa (Pulmozyme) from her warm pocket and says of the patient, “He didn’t want to take this at 8 p.m. and I still have it. So you can just use this for his 8 a.m. treatment.” When you arrive in the room, you find only one standard small volume nebulizer. When you enter the room the patient tells you, “That other RT was just putting both the albuterol and the Pulmozyme in this neb to save time.” Select two things about this scenario that are not following recommendations.
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A patient who is allergic to cats tells you that she took a her montelukast sodium (Singulair) before going over to a friend’s house to study for the night because she knew her friend had a cat. She went on to say, ” I was still sneezing constantly and a complete watery-eyed mess! That Singulair did nothing for me! ” What is your assessment of the situation?
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