NAPLEX IV Medication Principles Questions with Correct Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1: parenteral drug administration
Answer: IV, IM, subQ, IA, intrathecal
Question 2: Intrathecal administration of ___ is fatal.
Answer: vincristine
Question 3: What are complications of peripheral IV administration?
Answer: phlebitis, thrombosis, fluid extravasation
Question 4: Where should the catheter tip be for central lines?
Answer: superior or inferior vena cava
Question 5: examples of vesicants
Answer: vasopressors, anthracyclines (doxorubicin), vinca alkaloids (vincristine, vinblastine), digoxin,
foscarnet, nafcillin, mannitol, mitomycin, promethazine
Question 6: What is the preferred route of administration of promethazine?
Answer: IM, still risk for tissue injury
Question 7: Do not use promethazine in children <___
Answer: 2yo
Question 8: chemical incompatibility
Answer: drug degradation or toxicity due to hydrolysis, oxidation, or decomposition reaction
Question 9: physical incompatibility
Answer: between a drug and container/diluent/another drug causing color change or precipitation
Question 10: container incompatibility
Answer: DEHP leaching (hepatotoxic)
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(Grade A+)
Question 1: parenteral drug administration
Answer: IV, IM, subQ, IA, intrathecal
Question 2: Intrathecal administration of ___ is fatal.
Answer: vincristine
Question 3: What are complications of peripheral IV administration?
Answer: phlebitis, thrombosis, fluid extravasation
Question 4: Where should the catheter tip be for central lines?
Answer: superior or inferior vena cava
Question 5: examples of vesicants
Answer: vasopressors, anthracyclines (doxorubicin), vinca alkaloids (vincristine, vinblastine), digoxin,
foscarnet, nafcillin, mannitol, mitomycin, promethazine
Question 6: What is the preferred route of administration of promethazine?
Answer: IM, still risk for tissue injury
Question 7: Do not use promethazine in children <___
Answer: 2yo
Question 8: chemical incompatibility
Answer: drug degradation or toxicity due to hydrolysis, oxidation, or decomposition reaction
Question 9: physical incompatibility
Answer: between a drug and container/diluent/another drug causing color change or precipitation
Question 10: container incompatibility
Answer: DEHP leaching (hepatotoxic)
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