Complete Test Bank for Lehne's Pharmacotherapeutics for
Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants 3rd
Edition by Resenthal and Burchum (All chapters included)
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,Chapter 1. The Role of the Nurse Practitioner
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by:
1. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing
2. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
3. The State Board of Nursing for each state
4. The State Board of Pharmacy
2. The benefits to the patient of having an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)
prescriber include:
1. Nurses know more about Pharmacology than other
prescribers because they take it both in their basic
nursing program and in their APRN program.
2. Nurses care for the patient from a holistic approach
and include the patient in decision making regarding
their care.
3. APRNs are less likely to prescribe narcotics and
other controlled substances.
4. APRNs are able to prescribe independently in all states,
whereas a physician’s assistant needs to have
a physician supervising their practice.
3. Clinical judgment in prescribing includes:
1. Factoring in the cost to the patient of the medication
prescribed
2. Always prescribing the newest medication available
for the disease process
3. Handing out drug samples to poor patients
4. Prescribing all generic medications to cut costs
4. Criteria for choosing an effective drug for a disorder include:
1. Asking the patient what drug they think would
work best for them
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, 2. Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for
disease management
3. Prescribing medications that are available as
samples before writing a prescription
4. Following U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
guidelines for prescribing
5. Nurse practitioner practice may thrive under health-care reform because of:
1. The demonstrated ability of nurse practitioners to
control costs and improve patient outcomes
2. The fact that nurse practitioners will be able to
practice independently
3. The fact that nurse practitioners will have full
reimbursement under health-care reform
4. The ability to shift accountability for Medicaid to
the state level
Chapter 2. Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. A patient’s nutritional intake and laboratory results reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is
critical to prescribing because:
1. Distribution of drugs to target tissue may be
affected.
2. The solubility of the drug will not match the site of
absorption.
3. There will be less free drug available to generate an
effect.
4. Drugs bound to albumin are readily excreted by the
kidneys.
2. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect:
1. Must be given by the enteral (oral) route only
2. Bypass the hepatic circulation
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, 3. Are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have
little if any desired action
4. Are converted by the liver to more active and fat-
soluble forms
3. The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be the:
1. Kidneys
2. Lungs
3. Bile and feces
4. Skin
4. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed intramuscularly (IM) to create a
storage reservoir of the drug. Storage reservoirs:
1. Assure that the drug will reach its intended target
tissue
2. Are the reason for giving loading doses
3. Increase the length of time a drug is available and
active
4. Are most common in collagen tissues
5. The NP chooses to give cephalexin every 8 hours based on knowledge of the drug’s:
1. Propensity to go to the target receptor
2. Biological half-life
3. Pharmacodynamics
4. Safety and side effects
6. Azithromycin dosing requires that the first day’s dosage be twice those of the other 4 days of
the prescription. This is considered a loading dose. A loading dose:
1. Rapidly achieves drug levels in the therapeutic
range
2. Requires four- to five-half-lives to attain
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Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants 3rd
Edition by Resenthal and Burchum (All chapters included)
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,Chapter 1. The Role of the Nurse Practitioner
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by:
1. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing
2. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
3. The State Board of Nursing for each state
4. The State Board of Pharmacy
2. The benefits to the patient of having an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)
prescriber include:
1. Nurses know more about Pharmacology than other
prescribers because they take it both in their basic
nursing program and in their APRN program.
2. Nurses care for the patient from a holistic approach
and include the patient in decision making regarding
their care.
3. APRNs are less likely to prescribe narcotics and
other controlled substances.
4. APRNs are able to prescribe independently in all states,
whereas a physician’s assistant needs to have
a physician supervising their practice.
3. Clinical judgment in prescribing includes:
1. Factoring in the cost to the patient of the medication
prescribed
2. Always prescribing the newest medication available
for the disease process
3. Handing out drug samples to poor patients
4. Prescribing all generic medications to cut costs
4. Criteria for choosing an effective drug for a disorder include:
1. Asking the patient what drug they think would
work best for them
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, 2. Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for
disease management
3. Prescribing medications that are available as
samples before writing a prescription
4. Following U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
guidelines for prescribing
5. Nurse practitioner practice may thrive under health-care reform because of:
1. The demonstrated ability of nurse practitioners to
control costs and improve patient outcomes
2. The fact that nurse practitioners will be able to
practice independently
3. The fact that nurse practitioners will have full
reimbursement under health-care reform
4. The ability to shift accountability for Medicaid to
the state level
Chapter 2. Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. A patient’s nutritional intake and laboratory results reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is
critical to prescribing because:
1. Distribution of drugs to target tissue may be
affected.
2. The solubility of the drug will not match the site of
absorption.
3. There will be less free drug available to generate an
effect.
4. Drugs bound to albumin are readily excreted by the
kidneys.
2. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect:
1. Must be given by the enteral (oral) route only
2. Bypass the hepatic circulation
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, 3. Are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have
little if any desired action
4. Are converted by the liver to more active and fat-
soluble forms
3. The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be the:
1. Kidneys
2. Lungs
3. Bile and feces
4. Skin
4. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed intramuscularly (IM) to create a
storage reservoir of the drug. Storage reservoirs:
1. Assure that the drug will reach its intended target
tissue
2. Are the reason for giving loading doses
3. Increase the length of time a drug is available and
active
4. Are most common in collagen tissues
5. The NP chooses to give cephalexin every 8 hours based on knowledge of the drug’s:
1. Propensity to go to the target receptor
2. Biological half-life
3. Pharmacodynamics
4. Safety and side effects
6. Azithromycin dosing requires that the first day’s dosage be twice those of the other 4 days of
the prescription. This is considered a loading dose. A loading dose:
1. Rapidly achieves drug levels in the therapeutic
range
2. Requires four- to five-half-lives to attain
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