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Title: A nurse is acting as a preceptor to a graduate nurse. They are discussing the differences between ...
Post by: Mstoniy on Jan 24, 2018
A nurse is acting as a preceptor to a graduate nurse. They are discussing the differences between various medications. The nurses understand that, in contrast to the barbiturates, the benzodiaze-pines have which principal mechanism of action?
 
  a. They cannot pass the blood-brain barrier.
  b. They have limited central nervous system depression effects.
  c. They are not lipid soluble.
  d. They have more difficulty affecting the central nervous system.


Title: A nurse is acting as a preceptor to a graduate nurse. They are discussing the differences between ...
Post by: PDARRINGTON97 on Jan 24, 2018
B
The ability of benzodiazepines to depress central nervous system function is low. Because of their high lipid solubility, benzodiazepines readily cross the blood-brain barrier to reach sites in the central nervous system.
Benzodiazepines readily cross the blood-brain barrier.
Benzodiazepines are highly lipid soluble.
Benzodiazepines do not have more difficulty affecting the central nervous system than barbitu-rates do.


Title: A nurse is acting as a preceptor to a graduate nurse. They are discussing the differences between ...
Post by: Mstoniy on Jan 24, 2018
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