PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSING CARE
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE TEST PAPER
●● Define pharmacodynamics.
Answer: The study of interactions between the chemical components of
living systems and foreign chemicals, including drugs.
●● What does pharmacokinetics study?
Answer: What the body does to a drug, including absorption,
distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
●● What is pharmacotherapeutics?
Answer: The study of the therapeutic uses and effects of drugs.
●● What federal agency regulates drug evaluation in the United States?
Answer: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
●● What are the three names a drug can have?
Answer: Chemical name, generic name, and trade/brand name.
●● What is the role of pharmacotherapeutics in nursing?
, Answer: Involves the use of drugs to treat or prevent diseases,
emphasizing safe administration and patient education.
●● How do drugs typically work in the body?
Answer: By replacing missing chemicals, increasing cellular activities,
depressing cellular activities, or interfering with foreign cells.
●● What is an agonist in pharmacodynamics?
Answer: A drug that works with receptor sites to produce a desired
effect.
●● What is a competitive antagonist?
Answer: A drug that fills receptor sites so that other chemicals cannot
bind.
●● Define selective toxicity.
Answer: The ability of a drug to attack systems found in foreign cells
without affecting normal human cells.
●● What does the term 'first pass effect' refer to?
Answer: The phenomenon where drugs given orally are largely
inactivated by liver enzymes before entering general circulation.
●● What factors affect drug absorption?
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE TEST PAPER
●● Define pharmacodynamics.
Answer: The study of interactions between the chemical components of
living systems and foreign chemicals, including drugs.
●● What does pharmacokinetics study?
Answer: What the body does to a drug, including absorption,
distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
●● What is pharmacotherapeutics?
Answer: The study of the therapeutic uses and effects of drugs.
●● What federal agency regulates drug evaluation in the United States?
Answer: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
●● What are the three names a drug can have?
Answer: Chemical name, generic name, and trade/brand name.
●● What is the role of pharmacotherapeutics in nursing?
, Answer: Involves the use of drugs to treat or prevent diseases,
emphasizing safe administration and patient education.
●● How do drugs typically work in the body?
Answer: By replacing missing chemicals, increasing cellular activities,
depressing cellular activities, or interfering with foreign cells.
●● What is an agonist in pharmacodynamics?
Answer: A drug that works with receptor sites to produce a desired
effect.
●● What is a competitive antagonist?
Answer: A drug that fills receptor sites so that other chemicals cannot
bind.
●● Define selective toxicity.
Answer: The ability of a drug to attack systems found in foreign cells
without affecting normal human cells.
●● What does the term 'first pass effect' refer to?
Answer: The phenomenon where drugs given orally are largely
inactivated by liver enzymes before entering general circulation.
●● What factors affect drug absorption?
