A Client Tells the Nurse That the Health Care Provider

A client tells the nurse that the health care provider has prescribed a new medication that ìhas just come on the market.î The nurse has not heard of this particular medication but is able to give the client important information based on its prototype drug because of which principles? Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

A) Knowing the prototype drug allows the nurse to predict the mechanism of action of the new medication.
B) The information regarding the prototype drug can be extended to any drug in the same class.
C) The prototype drug is the drug to which all drugs in a class are compared.
D) Knowing the prototype drug's therapeutic or pharmacologic classification can reveal important information about other drugs in the same class.
E) This is a new drug on the market.It may not have a prototype drug yet and its properties cannot be predicted.