NURS 5334 Advanced
Pharmacology for NPs | NURS
5334 Final Exam Questions and
100% Correct Answers 2025/26
Update – UTA
Define Pharmacokinetics - CORRECTANSWERS---The impact of the body on drugs.
How much of an administered dose gets to its sites of action.
Four major pharmokinetic processes - CORRECTANSWERS---Drug absorption, drug
distribution, drug metabolism, and drug excretion.
, Define Pharmacodynamics - CORRECTANSWERS---The impact of drugs on the body.
The nature and intensity of the response to the drug.
Two major areas in which you can apply pharmacologic knowledge. -
CORRECTANSWERS---Patient care and patient education.
Seven aspects of drug therapy. - CORRECTANSWERS---Pre administration
assessment, dosage and administration, evaluating and promoting therapeutic effects,
minimizing adverse effects, minimizing adverse reactions, making "as needed" (PRN)
decisions, and managing toxicity.
Pre administration assessment - CORRECTANSWERS---Three basic goals: collecting
baseline data needed to evaluate therapeutic and adverse responses, identifying high -
risk patients, and assessing the patient's capacity for self-care.
To help reduce adverse effects, you must know - CORRECTANSWERS---The major
adverse effects the drug can produce, when these reactions are likely to occur, early
signs that an adverse reaction is developing, and interventions that can minimize
discomfort and harm.
PRN - CORRECTANSWERS---pro re nata, a Latin phrase meaning as needed
Nursing process - CORRECTANSWERS---ADPIE - Assessment, analysis (diagnosis),
planning, implementation, and evaluation.
**IV route dosing (parenteral) - CORRECTANSWERS---Goes directly to the body.
Results in 100% bioavailability. Decreasing first pass effect, decreasing absorption
limitations, extractions...
By passes absorption and extraction.
Loading dose - CORRECTANSWERS---[Peak] concentration X Vd divided by
bioavailability
Maintenance dose - CORRECTANSWERS---[Peak] X Clearance divided by
bioavailability
Clearance is affected by - CORRECTANSWERS---Kidney function
**If a patient has kidney disease you would - CORRECTANSWERS---Decrease your
maintenance dose; loading dose stays the same (doesn't affect clearance)
Metabolism - CORRECTANSWERS---
Phase 1 reaction - CORRECTANSWERS---Oxidation, reduction, hydrolytic (CYP450
system in the liver) Zone 3: Hepatic acinus where drugs are modified
Pharmacology for NPs | NURS
5334 Final Exam Questions and
100% Correct Answers 2025/26
Update – UTA
Define Pharmacokinetics - CORRECTANSWERS---The impact of the body on drugs.
How much of an administered dose gets to its sites of action.
Four major pharmokinetic processes - CORRECTANSWERS---Drug absorption, drug
distribution, drug metabolism, and drug excretion.
, Define Pharmacodynamics - CORRECTANSWERS---The impact of drugs on the body.
The nature and intensity of the response to the drug.
Two major areas in which you can apply pharmacologic knowledge. -
CORRECTANSWERS---Patient care and patient education.
Seven aspects of drug therapy. - CORRECTANSWERS---Pre administration
assessment, dosage and administration, evaluating and promoting therapeutic effects,
minimizing adverse effects, minimizing adverse reactions, making "as needed" (PRN)
decisions, and managing toxicity.
Pre administration assessment - CORRECTANSWERS---Three basic goals: collecting
baseline data needed to evaluate therapeutic and adverse responses, identifying high -
risk patients, and assessing the patient's capacity for self-care.
To help reduce adverse effects, you must know - CORRECTANSWERS---The major
adverse effects the drug can produce, when these reactions are likely to occur, early
signs that an adverse reaction is developing, and interventions that can minimize
discomfort and harm.
PRN - CORRECTANSWERS---pro re nata, a Latin phrase meaning as needed
Nursing process - CORRECTANSWERS---ADPIE - Assessment, analysis (diagnosis),
planning, implementation, and evaluation.
**IV route dosing (parenteral) - CORRECTANSWERS---Goes directly to the body.
Results in 100% bioavailability. Decreasing first pass effect, decreasing absorption
limitations, extractions...
By passes absorption and extraction.
Loading dose - CORRECTANSWERS---[Peak] concentration X Vd divided by
bioavailability
Maintenance dose - CORRECTANSWERS---[Peak] X Clearance divided by
bioavailability
Clearance is affected by - CORRECTANSWERS---Kidney function
**If a patient has kidney disease you would - CORRECTANSWERS---Decrease your
maintenance dose; loading dose stays the same (doesn't affect clearance)
Metabolism - CORRECTANSWERS---
Phase 1 reaction - CORRECTANSWERS---Oxidation, reduction, hydrolytic (CYP450
system in the liver) Zone 3: Hepatic acinus where drugs are modified
