RNSG 1301 ACTUAL EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Challenges in health care today - ✔✔- Information overload (media influence and
the internet)
- Demands for specific treatments
- Increased access to self-care systems (alternative therapies and herbal medicine)
- Financial pressures to provide cost-effective care
✔✔What herbals can cause hypoglycemia? - ✔✔Juniper berries, ginseng, garlic,
fenugreek, coriander, dandelion root, or celery.
✔✔half life calculation - ✔✔Amount divided by 2
Example:
Half-life 12 hrs of 50mg dose
-In 12 hrs half of 50mg is 25mg would be in the body
- In another 12 hrs half of 25 is 12.5 would be 12.5mg
Etc..
, ✔✔Half-life - ✔✔the time required for the amount of drug in the body to decrease to one
half of the peak level it previously achieved.
✔✔Phases of nursing process related to medication administration - ✔✔- correct drug
and patient
- correct storage of drug
- correct and most effective route
- correct dose
- correct preparation
- correct timing
- correct recording of administration
✔✔Adverse effects of Sulfa drugs - ✔✔Monitor the patient for CNS toxicity, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea, liver injury, renal toxicity, and bone marrow depression.
✔✔Antibiotics contraindicated in kids - ✔✔The FLUOROQUINOLONES are associated
w/ damage to developing cartilage and are not recommended for growing children.
TETRACYCLINES are not indicated for children because of effects on growing bones
and teeth.
✔✔Why do we ask patients about alternative therapies? - ✔✔Asking patients should
become a routine par of any health history.
Herbal or alternative therapies are considered to be dietary supplements and are not
tightly regulated by the FDA.
Herbal therapies can produce unexpected effects and toxic reactions, can interact with
prescription drugs, and can contain various unknown ingredients that alter their
effectiveness and toxicity.
✔✔Factors affecting drug metabolism - ✔✔Liver function
✔✔Agonist - ✔✔Drugs that bind to receptors sites to cause same activity natural
chemicals would cost
Example: Insulin
✔✔Antagonist - ✔✔Blocks normal activity
✔✔What can we do to prevent drug resistance? - ✔✔limit use of antibiotics to avoid
bacteria developing a resistant strain
✔✔Symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) - ✔✔muscle rigidity, high
fever, autonomic instability and cognitive changes (delirium)
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Challenges in health care today - ✔✔- Information overload (media influence and
the internet)
- Demands for specific treatments
- Increased access to self-care systems (alternative therapies and herbal medicine)
- Financial pressures to provide cost-effective care
✔✔What herbals can cause hypoglycemia? - ✔✔Juniper berries, ginseng, garlic,
fenugreek, coriander, dandelion root, or celery.
✔✔half life calculation - ✔✔Amount divided by 2
Example:
Half-life 12 hrs of 50mg dose
-In 12 hrs half of 50mg is 25mg would be in the body
- In another 12 hrs half of 25 is 12.5 would be 12.5mg
Etc..
, ✔✔Half-life - ✔✔the time required for the amount of drug in the body to decrease to one
half of the peak level it previously achieved.
✔✔Phases of nursing process related to medication administration - ✔✔- correct drug
and patient
- correct storage of drug
- correct and most effective route
- correct dose
- correct preparation
- correct timing
- correct recording of administration
✔✔Adverse effects of Sulfa drugs - ✔✔Monitor the patient for CNS toxicity, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea, liver injury, renal toxicity, and bone marrow depression.
✔✔Antibiotics contraindicated in kids - ✔✔The FLUOROQUINOLONES are associated
w/ damage to developing cartilage and are not recommended for growing children.
TETRACYCLINES are not indicated for children because of effects on growing bones
and teeth.
✔✔Why do we ask patients about alternative therapies? - ✔✔Asking patients should
become a routine par of any health history.
Herbal or alternative therapies are considered to be dietary supplements and are not
tightly regulated by the FDA.
Herbal therapies can produce unexpected effects and toxic reactions, can interact with
prescription drugs, and can contain various unknown ingredients that alter their
effectiveness and toxicity.
✔✔Factors affecting drug metabolism - ✔✔Liver function
✔✔Agonist - ✔✔Drugs that bind to receptors sites to cause same activity natural
chemicals would cost
Example: Insulin
✔✔Antagonist - ✔✔Blocks normal activity
✔✔What can we do to prevent drug resistance? - ✔✔limit use of antibiotics to avoid
bacteria developing a resistant strain
✔✔Symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) - ✔✔muscle rigidity, high
fever, autonomic instability and cognitive changes (delirium)
