Pharmacology Midterm 90+ (Latest Edition) 100% Verified Q&A + Answer Key Solutions

Pharmacology Midterm
(Latest 2025-2026 Edition) 100% Verified Q&A + Answer
90+
Key Solutions


VERIFIED ANSWERS


Question 1
6 rights of medication administration
Correct Answer
Right Dose, Right Patient, Right Route, Right Medication, Right Time, Right Documentation


Question 2
Nursing Process
Correct Answer
a. An Organizational framework for the practice nursing.
b. Nursing Diagnosis - means communicating and sharing accurate information regarding patient well being.
c. Assessment-data collection, review, and analyze
d. planning- goals & outcome criteria
e. Implementation- including patient education
f. Evaluation


Question 3
Bioequivalent
Correct Answer
if two products are said to be bioequivalent it means that they would be expected to be, for all intents and purposes, the
same.


Question 4
Synergistic
Correct Answer
it means various parts are working together to produce an enhanced result




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,Question 5
a compound that, on administration, must undergo chemical conversion by metabolic processes before becoming an active
pharmacological agent
(start inactive go to the liver)
Correct Answer
Prodrugs- activated by ingestion


Question 6
Steady state
Correct Answer
the physiologic state in which the amount of drug removed via elimination is equal to the amount of the absorbed with
each dose. (therapeutic dose)


Question 7
First-pass effect
Correct Answer
If a large portion of a drug is chemically changed into inactive metabolites in the liver, then a much smaller amount of
drug will pass into the circulation. Reduces bioavailability of the drug to less than 100 %


Question 8
Adverse Effect
Correct Answer
General term of any undesirable effects that are direct response to one or more drugs.


Question 9
Allergic reaction
Correct Answer
Immunologic hypersensitivity reaction resulting from the unusual sensitivity of a patient to a particular medication; type
of adverse drug event


Question 10
Idiosyncratic reaction
Correct Answer
An abnormal and unexpected response to a medication, other than allergic reaction, that Is peculiar to an individual
patient


Question 11
Pharmachologic reaction
Correct Answer
The toxic effect is simply an extension of the pharmacological effect. It is doing what it is supposed to do just too much




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, Question 12
Half-Life
Correct Answer
The time required for half of an administered dose of drug to be eliminated by the body , or the time it takes for the
blood level of a drug to be reduced by 50 percent


Question 13
Duration of action
Correct Answer
The length of time the concentration of a drug in the blood or tissues is sufficient to elicit a response


Question 14
Selective enzyme interaction

Correct Answer
Enzymes are highly selective catalyst, meaning that each enzyme only speeds up a specific reaction. The molecules that an
enzyme works which are called substrates. The substance bind to a region on the enzyme called the active site. There are
two theories explaining the enzyme-substrates interaction.


Question 15
Highly protein bound
Correct Answer
Metabolism would be longer


Question 16
Highly protein bound
Correct Answer
Drugs that are bound to plasma proteins are characterized by longer duration of action. Protein binding does not make
renal excretion faster, does not speed up drug metabolism, and does not cause the duration of action to be shorter


Question 17
Absorption
Correct Answer
The process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another


Question 18
Distribution
Correct Answer
The process is distributing or the condition of being distributed




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