A nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about administering medications to older adult patients. Which statement by a student indicates a need for further teaching? ""Alteration in hepatic function requires more frequent drug dosing."" ""Changes in GI function in older adult patients lead to lower serum drug levels."" ""Most adverse drug reactions in older adult patients are related to altered renal function."" ""Most nonadherence among older adult patients is intentional.""

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Shiloh Rios

12 June, 03:47

A nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about administering medications to older adult patients. Which statement by a student indicates a need for further teaching? ""Alteration in hepatic function requires more frequent drug dosing."" ""Changes in GI function in older adult patients lead to lower serum drug levels."" ""Most adverse drug reactions in older adult patients are related to altered renal function."" ""Most nonadherence among older adult patients is intentional.""

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Saige Snow · Answer 1

""Alteration in hepatic function requires more frequent drug dosing.""

Explanation:

""Alteration in hepatic function requires more frequent drug dosing"" means change in liver or hepatic function requires more drug dosing at regular intervals. But this may lead to deteriorate the health condition of an older adult patients because more frequent dosing of medicines can do more harm to the liver of the older adult patients, since organs such as livers or kidneys are weak in old adult patients than in young patients.

Thus the answer is ""Alteration in hepatic function requires more frequent drug dosing.""