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NUR 311 Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers

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What is a chemical that affects living processes? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Drug


What is the study of drugs in living systems? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Pharmacology


What specifically applies to the study of drugs in humans? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Clinical pharmacology |




What diagnoses, treats, and prevents disease or pregnancy? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Pharmacotherapeutics


What are the three most important properties of drugs? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Effectiveness, safety, and selectivity | | |




What is THE most important property of drugs? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Effectiveness

,This means that the drug only causes desired effects - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Selectivity


True or False: There are drugs that exist that only causes the desired
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effect. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-False
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Selectivity means that: | | |




a. only certain populations respond to the drug.
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b. the drug only causes desired effects.
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c. the dosage determines the effects of the drug.
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d. the health care organization determines the drugs on the formulary. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B |




The drug concentration is related to what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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How the drug is administered
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The doctor has ordered your patient the medication Advil to be
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administered orally. Is the concentration for this medication most likely| | | | | | | | | |



to be high or low? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-High
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This is also known as how long it takes for you to get rid of 50% of the
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drug in your body. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Half-life
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,What is the impact of body on drugs? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Pharmacokinetics


What is the impact of drugs on the body? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Pharmacodynamics


What determines the nature and intensity of drug response? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Site of action | |




An oral dose of a specific drug is usually ________________ the
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parenteral dose. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Greater than| | | | |




The concentration of the drug at the receptor is primarily determined by
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....? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Administration
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Which act that passed in 1906 ensured that drugs were free of
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adulterants, or that companies were to make sure that their drugs were
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as pure as possible? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Federal Pure Food and
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Drug Act |




In 1938, which act was passed that required toxicity testing to be
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reviewed by the FDA? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Federal Food, Drug and
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Cosmetic Act |

, Which act passed in 1962 that included rigorous testing procedures for
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new drugs and proof of effectiveness? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Harris-
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Kefauver Amendment |




Which legislation passed in 1970 that included rules for the
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manufacture and distribution of drugs with potential for abuse? (ex.
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illegal drugs such as heroin) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Controlled
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Substanced Act |




This controlled substance has no acceptable medical use and high abuse
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potential (ex. heroin and LSD) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Control 1
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This act of 1997 required manufacturers to give the FDA a 6 months
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notice before stopping drug production, it established a clinical trial
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database for experimental drugs, and allowed drug manufacturers to
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give "off label" use information. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-FDA
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Modernization Act |




Which amendment in 2007 included rigorous oversight of drugs AFTER
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approval? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-FDA Amendements Act
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Which act that was passed in 2002 required pediatric testing of drugs
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already on the market by the National Institutes of Health and FDA and
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