On the 1 a. m. rounds, the nurse finds a patient awake and frustrated that she cannot go to sleep. the nurse administers an ordered hypnotic to the patient sleep. two hours later, the nurse finds the patient out of bed, full of energy and cleaning her room. the nurse evaluates the patient's response to the hypnotic as

The correct answer is: an idiosyncratic response

+An idiosyncratic response is an unusual or opposite effect of what is intended. A
response of this nature is related to a person's unique response to a drug
rather than to the dose of a drug.
+An allergic reaction is an immune system
response.
+A synergistic effect occurs when two or more "unlike" drugs are used
together to produce a combined effect and the outcome is a drug effect greater
than either drug's activity alone.
+A teratogenic effect is a physical defect in
the developing fetus caused by a drug or a vaccine that the mother took during
pregnancy.
The correct answer is: an idiosyncratic response