Concern about new medication

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An 82-year-old patient with advanced Alzheimer disease is brought in by his daughter for a concern about a new medication. She states that since he started taking Haldol for increasing psychotic behavior, he has began having bizarre movements. The nurse knows that this drug can cause which of these behaviors? opening and closing of the mouth and repetitive, rhythmic tongue protrusion brief, intermittent, repetitive localized muscle twitches of the face occasional, brief but sudden jerks of the extremities especially when falling asleep brief but erratic and irregular movements that interrupt normal motion.

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