Barnes’s medication request? She knows him well and may be more sensitive than the nursing staff to subtle behavior that could indicate pain or agitation. JACK BARNES, 46, IS in your unit for treatment to control pain from advanced lymphoma. As a nurse practitioner with 20 years of clinical experience and 2 years of lorazepam 1 mg an integrated homeopathic practice, I was proud to see an article describing homeopathy to fellow nurse practitioners. Homeopathy is a treatment option that is without adverse effects, costs pennies for a course of treatment, and stimulates the human organism to heal itself versus medicating the patient and masking the symptoms with drugs that are fraught with adverse effects and potential drug interactions. Second, there are no large drug companies to underwrite homeopathic studies because there are no huge profits to be gained. It is used to treat anxiety disorders and relieve short term anxiety symptoms associated with depression. Barnes doesn’t respond to these measures. You’re uncomfortable with her request, believing that he’s comfortable and that more lorazepam could hasten his death. Accurate pain assessments are more difficult in patients who can’t communicate verbally: Assess the patient’s degree and amount of facial grimacing or moaning during position changes. Please talk to your patients about their lorazepam 1 mg experience with homeopathy. Barnes’s lorazepam 1 mg concerns that her husband isn’t getting adequate care and could create a hostile atmosphere. Barnes’s assessment and your own warrants further investigation. Simply because a therapeutic modality has been lorazepam 1 mg used for hundreds of years does not mean it should be considered a valid treatment option. Normally I wouldn’t let someone drive after a tubal ligation, especially after she’d been given lorazepam, but because she was a nurse I figured she was capable of judging her limits. Although she appeared depressed, she insisted she was fine and wanted to drive herself home. Patients in both of the study groups lorazepam 1 mg were treated according to a treatment algorithm to ensure that they all received the same standard of care while in the hospital, Dr. Erratum Errors regarding dosing appear on page 28 of Managing Alcohol-related Problems in the Primary Care Setting in the August, 1999, issue of The Nurse Practitioner The sentence should have read, For patients with impaired liver function, the nonhepatically metabolized benzodiazepines (lorazepam 1 to 2 mg every 4 hours, and oxazepam, 15 to 30 mg every 4 hours) have been shown to reduce symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal with low sedation. The sentence in the Case Study regarding dosing should have read, Lorazepam, 1 mg every 4 hours for the next 24 hours is prescribed. (every lorazepam 1 mg 2 to 4 hours), for agitation.