A primary care NP sees a patient who is about to take a cruise and reports having had motion sickness with nausea on a previous cruise.The NP prescribes the scopolamine transdermal patch and should instruct the patient to apply the patch:

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The transdermal system allows steady-state plasma levels of scopolamine to be reached rapidly and maintained for 3 days.The onset of action is approximately 4 hours.The patch should be changed every 3 days and left on at all times,not as needed.

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