Exam 48: Antimalarial, Antiprotozoal, and Anthelmintic Drugs

A woman is travelling to a country that poses a high risk for malarial infections.What important information should the nurse teach her regarding prophylactic therapy with chloroquine for her child?

A patient has giardiasis.The health care provider has prescribed metronidazole.What adverse effect should the nurse tell the patient about?

A patient is prescribed anthelmintic therapy.Which adverse effect should the nurse tell this patient about?

A patient who has started therapy with quinine and tetracycline for treatment of malaria asks the nurse why an antibiotic has been prescribed when malaria is caused by a parasite.What is the nurse's best explanation to the patient?

Which drug is used to kill flukes?

Which statement about anthelmintic therapy is true?

A patient is prescribed metronidazole (Flagyl)to treat the most common intestinal protozoal infection,caused by Giardia lamblia.What important information should the nurse give the patient about using this drug?

A patient is travelling to a country where malaria is endemic.Which antimalarial drug will a health care provider likely recommend as prophylaxis?

Which drug is used for the treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in late-stage human immunodeficiency virus infection?

Certain antimalarial drugs work only during specific phases of the parasite's life cycle.Drugs that work in the "tissue" phase are known as ____________ drugs.