NURS 617 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION
●● Pharmacokinetics
Answer: The process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed within the
body, metabolized, and excreted.
●● Pharmacogenomics
Answer: The study of the influence of genetic factors on drug response
that result in the absence, overabundance, or insufficiency of drug-
metabolizing enzymes
●● Medication side effect
Answer: a nearly unavoidable secondary effect of a drug produced at
therapeutic doses which is generally predictable and with an intensity
that is dose-dependent
●● Adverse Effect
Answer: A drug-induced, secondary effect of a drug that produces a
change in a patients condition that is noxious, harmful or unpleasant,
which requires treatment or reduction or discontinuation of the drug and
which usually occurs at therapeutic doses.
,●● Type A adverse drug reactions
Answer: exaggerated, but otherwise expected pharmacological effect of
a drug -> predictable and dose dependent -> ex. toxicity of overdose,
side effects, secondary effects, drug interactions
●● Type B adverse drug reactions
Answer: idiosyncratic effects (not expected) -> dose independent and
unpredictable -> intolerance, hypersensitivity, pseudo allergic,
idiosyncratic
●● Drug tolerance
Answer: the tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time
to achieve the same effect
●● Physical drug dependence
Answer: condition where a person's body becomes unable to function
normally without a particular drug
●● Psychological dependence
Answer: a condition in which a person believes that a drug is needed in
order to feel good or to function normally
●● Allergic reaction
, Answer: An immunologic hypersensitivity reaction resulting from the
unusual sensitivity of a patient to a particular medication; a type of
adverse drug event.
●● Idiosyncratic or paradoxical reaction
Answer: When a drug may cause a totally unexpected and often opposite
effect in a few patients
●● Carcinogenic reaction
Answer: medications and environmental chemicals that are thought to
cause cancer
●● Teratogenic reaction
Answer: Refers to the drug induced damage that develops in the fetus
●● Beneficial potentiative drug-drug interaction
Answer: Aspirin and Codeine are both analgesic drugs and when
administered concurrently the combo provides better pain relief than
either one alone. What type of drug interaction is this?
●● Beneficial Potentiative Drug-Drug Interaction
Answer: Use of Beta Blockers and Diuretics together for hypertension
will provide better control blood pressure. What type of drug interaction
is this?
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION
●● Pharmacokinetics
Answer: The process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed within the
body, metabolized, and excreted.
●● Pharmacogenomics
Answer: The study of the influence of genetic factors on drug response
that result in the absence, overabundance, or insufficiency of drug-
metabolizing enzymes
●● Medication side effect
Answer: a nearly unavoidable secondary effect of a drug produced at
therapeutic doses which is generally predictable and with an intensity
that is dose-dependent
●● Adverse Effect
Answer: A drug-induced, secondary effect of a drug that produces a
change in a patients condition that is noxious, harmful or unpleasant,
which requires treatment or reduction or discontinuation of the drug and
which usually occurs at therapeutic doses.
,●● Type A adverse drug reactions
Answer: exaggerated, but otherwise expected pharmacological effect of
a drug -> predictable and dose dependent -> ex. toxicity of overdose,
side effects, secondary effects, drug interactions
●● Type B adverse drug reactions
Answer: idiosyncratic effects (not expected) -> dose independent and
unpredictable -> intolerance, hypersensitivity, pseudo allergic,
idiosyncratic
●● Drug tolerance
Answer: the tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time
to achieve the same effect
●● Physical drug dependence
Answer: condition where a person's body becomes unable to function
normally without a particular drug
●● Psychological dependence
Answer: a condition in which a person believes that a drug is needed in
order to feel good or to function normally
●● Allergic reaction
, Answer: An immunologic hypersensitivity reaction resulting from the
unusual sensitivity of a patient to a particular medication; a type of
adverse drug event.
●● Idiosyncratic or paradoxical reaction
Answer: When a drug may cause a totally unexpected and often opposite
effect in a few patients
●● Carcinogenic reaction
Answer: medications and environmental chemicals that are thought to
cause cancer
●● Teratogenic reaction
Answer: Refers to the drug induced damage that develops in the fetus
●● Beneficial potentiative drug-drug interaction
Answer: Aspirin and Codeine are both analgesic drugs and when
administered concurrently the combo provides better pain relief than
either one alone. What type of drug interaction is this?
●● Beneficial Potentiative Drug-Drug Interaction
Answer: Use of Beta Blockers and Diuretics together for hypertension
will provide better control blood pressure. What type of drug interaction
is this?
