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A Patient Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Has Taken a Conventional Antipsychotic

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A patient diagnosed with schizophrenia has taken a conventional antipsychotic medication for a year. Hallucinations are less intrusive, but the patient continues to have apathy, poverty of thought, and social isolation. The nurse would expect a change to which medication?


A) Haloperidol
B) Olanzapine
C) Chlorpromazine
D) Diphenhydramine

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