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Question
Anti-cancer agents; Biologic response modifiers HIV and AIDS related drugs 32, 33, 34, 29
Ch. 32 Anti-cancer agents
1. What protective precautions should a nurse take when mixing and administering chemotherapy?
2. What are three actions of interferons when used to fight cancer?
3. What is the overall action of biologic response modifiers in cancer treatment?
4. Why would the nurse provide small frequent feeding to a patient receiving cyclophosphamide?
5. What are signs that fluorouracil or methotrexate are causing bone marrow suppression?
6. What is the action of corticosteroids when used to treat a cancerous tumor?
7. What education would the patient receiving tamoxifen need about long-term affect?
8. Describe the pattern of alopecia from some chemotherapeutics agents
9. List three separate uses for diphenhydramine
Ch. 33 Targeted cancer drugs
1. Targeted cancer drugs block the ______________ and ________________ of cancer cells.
2. What is the primary action of Ziv-aflibercept?
3. What are side effects of the drug gefitinib?
Ch. 34 Biologic response modifiers
1. What are 4 ways that BRM functions to assist the immune system?
2. What is the action of erythropoietin?
Ch.29 AIDS-related drugs
1. Name four-vectors for HIV transmission.
2. What two criteria would mean that a person has progressed from HIV positive to having AIDS?
3. When a healthcare worker is exposed to HIV, how soon should post-exposure prophylaxis treatment begin?
4. What are the common side effects of many drugs used to treat HIV AIDS?
5. The nurse stresses the importance of taking HIV drugs as prescribed to avoid what two negative outcomes?