A 40-year-old female with chronic anxiety finds that she requires more of her anti-anxiety medication in order to achieve the same effect. This is an example of:

The correct way for the scrub person to receive a local medication on the field is

a. to use a sterile syringe and hypodermic needle and draw up the drug offered from the circulating nurse. b. to place a cup near the edge of the sterile table and have the circulator pour the drug from the container after removing the lid. c. dispense the drug to the sterile field after confirming drug identification and expiration date with the scrub person. d. to wrap the drug vial in a sterile drape and have the scrub person draw it up themselves.

The following order was faxed to the pharmacy from the nursing home: Start Duragesic® patch, apply 25 mcg/hr patch Q72 h. D/C morphine sulfate SR after patch applied

In how many days should the patch be taken off and reapplied?