Question

Patient who takes 150 mg of clozapine (clozaril) twice daily calls the primary care np at 10:00 am one day to report forgetting to take the 8:00 am dose. the np should counsel the patient

Answer 1

A patient who report of forgetting to take 8.00 dose the np should counsel the patient to wait and take the the evening dose.at usual time.The patient should only take a missing does if he/she remembers within one hour after the time the does was supposed to be taken.The patient could not take the dose since it was two hours after.