A Child Diagnosed with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Will Begin Medication

question 20

Multiple Choice

A child diagnosed with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder will begin medication therapy. The nurse should prepare a plan to teach the family about which classification of medications?

• A) Psychostimulants
• B) Tricyclic antidepressants
• C) Antipsychotics
• D) Anxiolytics

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Definitions:

Dynamic Allocation

The process of assigning memory space for variables at runtime instead of compile time.

Malloc()

A standard library function in C that allocates a specified amount of memory and returns a pointer to the beginning.

Calloc()

A library function in the C programming language that allocates memory space for an array of elements, initializes them to zero, and returns a pointer to the allocated memory.

Realloc()

A function in C that resizes the memory block pointed to by a pointer, potentially moving it to accommodate the new size.