The nurse is providing medication education to a patient who has been prescribed ramelteon (Rozerem). The patient asks how it will improve his sleep. Which is the best response by the nurse?

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3. Ramelteon (Rozerem) is a melatonin receptor agonist, so it will act to produce the same response in the body as melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone. An antagonist medication would act to inhibit or deactivate the work of a hormone or neurotransmitter in the body. Tolerance describes the need to take increasing doses of a drug to achieve the same effect.

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