A patient has been taking oral prednisone 60 mg daily for 3 days for an asthma exacerbation,which has resolved.The patient reports having gastrointestinal (GI)upset.The primary care nurse practitioner (NP)should:

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The patient's asthma symptoms have resolved,so the prednisone may be discontinued.If the patient has been on the medication for a few days,it is not necessary to taper the dose before the patient stops taking it.If the patient required long-term dosing of the steroid,a PPI could be used.Every-other-day dosing is used.Alternate-day dosing is sometimes used for long-term therapy to minimize suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)axis.

A Patient Has Been Taking Oral Prednisone 60 Mg Daily