A patient has been administered a benzodiazepine one hour ago and is now agitated and angry. What does the nurse suspect the patient is demonstrating?

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2. A paradoxical response is the development of a contradictory reaction to the medication. Because the desired effect of a benzodiazepine is to calm the patient, agitation and anger would be paradoxical responses to a benzodiazepine. An idiosyncratic response is a unique and strange response to medication resulting in pain, bleeding, over response or organ failure. Target effect describes the intended or expected response of a medication. An anaphylactic response is a life-threatening severe, whole-body allergic response.

A Patient Has Been Administered a Benzodiazepine One Hour Ago