Exam 64: Aminoglycosides

A patient who was hospitalized for an infection was treated with an aminoglycoside antibiotic.The patient asks the primary care nurse practitioner (NP)why outpatient treatment wasn't an option.The NP should tell the patient that aminoglycoside antibiotics:

A primary care NP sees a patient who was recently hospitalized for infection and treated with gentamicin for 10 days.The patient tells the NP that the drug was discontinued early because "my blood level was too high." The NP should order:

A patient who was recently hospitalized and treated with gentamicin tells the primary care NP,"My kidney function test was abnormal and they stopped the medication." The patient is worried about long-term effects.The NP should:

While a patient is receiving an aminoglycoside medication by intramuscular injection,the provider should instruct the patient to expect: