Multiple Choice
The nurse realizes which patient is at greatest risk for an unintended synergistic effect?
A) A 72-year-old who is seeing four different specialists.
B) A 4-year-old who has mistakenly taken the entire packet of his mother's birth control pills.
C) A 50-year-old who was prescribed a second blood pressure medication.
D) A 35-year-old drug addict who has ingested "meth" mixed with several household chemicals.
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