Test Bank For Pharmacology Clear and Simple:
A Guide to Drug Classifications and Dosage
Calculations,
4th Edition by Cynthia J. Watkins
Chapters 1 - 21
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Chapter 1. History of Pharmacology
Pharmacology Clear and Simple- A Guide to Drug Classifications and
Dosage Calculations 4th Edition Watkins Test Bank
1. A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who
is having a computedtomography (CT) scan. The nurse working
on the oncology unit administers chemotherapy to patients who
have cancer. At the Public Health Department, a nurse
administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-
month-old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of
A) Pharmacoeconomics
B) Pharmacotherapeutics
C) Pharmacodynamics
D) Pharmacokinetics
ANSWER: B
Feedback:
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 nurse is administering a drug to help
diagnose a disease. The oncology nurse is administering a drug
to help treat a disease. Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs
involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug
2. 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 nurse is aware this
drug has a high abuse potential. Under what category
A) would morphine
Schedule I be classified?
B) Schedule II
C) Schedule III
D) Schedule IV
ANSWER: B