NURSING
PHARMACOLOGY 9TH
EDITION BY AMY
KARCH CHAPTER 1-59 |
COMPLETE GUIDE 2026
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Chapter 01 - Introduction to Drugs
A healthcare professional working in radiology administers iodine to a client who is having a computed
tomography (CT) scan. The healthcare professional working on the oncology unit administers
chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public Health Department, a healthcare
professional administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month-old child as a
routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actions of all three nurses?
Pharmacoeconomics
Pharmacotherapeutics
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics
ANSWER: B
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Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with clinical
pharmacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses of
drugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease. The radiology healthcare professional is administering a
drug to help diagnose a disease. The oncology healthcare professional is administering a drug to help
treat a disease.
Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how a
drug affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on the body.
A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as needed for
pain in a motor vehicle accident victim. The healthcare professional is aware this drug has a high
abuse potential.
Under what category would morphine be classified?
Schedule I
Schedule II
Schedule III
Schedule IV
ANSWER:
B
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Narcotics with a high abuse potential are classified as Schedule II drugs because of severe dependence
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