Provide rationale for drugs of your choice and methods to ensure that the patient does not develop a dependence on the drug.

Musculoskeletal and Analgesic Agents Control Substances and Narcotics As a nurse practitioner, you are seeing a 56-year-old male patient who presents with right hip pain. The pain started approximately 2 weeks ago with a pain scale of 9. He has been taking ibuprofen 800 mg every 6 hours for 2 weeks without significant relief in … Read more