An Infant Is Receiving a Medication That Has a Narrow

question 1

Multiple Choice

An infant is receiving a medication that has a narrow therapeutic range. The nurse reviews the medication information and learns that the drug is excreted by the kidneys. When giving the medication, the nurse will assess the infant for:

• A) decreased effectiveness of the drug.
• B) shorter period of the drug's effects.
• C) signs of drug toxicity.
• D) unusual CNS effects.

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Definitions:

Encoding Specificity

A principle stating that the recall of information is improved when the conditions during retrieval are similar to the conditions during encoding.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or prompts that help in the recall of information stored in memory.

Infant Amnesia

The phenomenon in which older children and adults are unable to recall memories from the first few years of life, theorized to be due to the development of the hippocampus and other memory-related brain structures.

Explicit Memory Tests

Assessments that measure the recall of specific information, requiring conscious effort to retrieve memories.