Edition by Rebecca Tucker All Chapter 1-56
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, Chapter 1: Introduction to Drugs
Format: Multiple Choice Chapter:
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Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral
Therapies
Cognitive Level: Analyze
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 1
Page and Header: 3, Introduction
A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed
tomography (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 pharmacology best describes the actions of all
three nurses?
Pharmacoeconomic
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Pharmacotherapeut
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Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics
Ans: 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 ofdrugs 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 adrug 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 forpain in a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this
, drug has a high abuse potential.
Under what category would morphine be classified?
Schedule I