Pharmacology Clear and Simple: A Guide to Drug
Classifications and Dosage Calculations 4th Edition
Verified Newest Version Grade A+
✓ Discard the entire bottle and contents and obtain a new bottle.
The nurse is preparing to administer a medication from a multidose bottle. The
label is torn and soiled but the name of the medication is still readable. What is
the nurse's priority action?
✓ Impact of drugs on the body.
The body's response to a drug. Adverse and anticipated drug effects.
What aspect of pharmacology does a nurse study?
✓ Adverse effects
The nurse, providing patient teaching about home medication use to an older
adult, explains that even when drugs are taken properly they can produce
negative or unexpected effects. What are these negative or unexpected effects
called?
✓ Drug effects
After administering a medication, for what would the nurse assess the patient?
✓ Find a more recent reference source.
The nurse receives an order to administer an unfamiliar medication and obtains a
nurse's drug guide published four years earlier. What is the nurse's most prudent
action?
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, ✓ Thorough medication teaching about drugs and the drug regimen
What would the nurse provide when preparing a patient for discharge and home
medication self- administration?
✓ Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In response to the patient's question about how to know whether drugs are safe,
the nurse explains that all medications undergo rigorous scientific testing
controlled by what organization?
✓ Drugs pose a greater risk to women of reproductive age.
The nurse, assisting with Phase I drug studies, is talking with a woman who asks,
Why can't I participate in this study? What would be the nurse's best response?
✓ Drugs in the preclinical phase of testing are only tested on animals and so
would not be available to you.
The patient tells the nurse about a new drug being tested to treat the disease she
was diagnosed with and asks the nurse whether the doctor can prescribe a
medication still in the preclinical phase of testing. What is the nurse's best
response?
✓ Your response to this medication will be reported to the drug company
and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
When a drug begins to be used by a large clinical market, new adverse
effects may be found.
The nurse is caring for a patient who had a severe, acute, previously unseen
adverse effect of a drug in Phase III testing. The patient asks, After all the testing
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, done on this drug, didn't they know this adverse effect could occur? What is the
nurse's best response?
✓ Controlled substances like narcotics are controlled by the FDA and the
DEA.
The telephone triage nurse receives a call from a patient asking for a prescription
for a narcotic to manage his surgical pain. The nurse explains that narcotic
prescriptions must be written and cannot be called in to the pharmacy. The
patient says, Why are narcotics so difficult to get a prescription for? What is the
nurse's best response?
✓ Schedule I medications have no medical use so they are not prescribed.
The nurse explains the Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA's) schedule of controlled
substances to the nursing assistant who asks, Do you ever get a prescription for
Schedule I medications? What is the nurse's best response?
✓ Never take medication until you receive approval from your health care
provider.
The nurse, working on the maternity unit, receives a call from a pregnant woman
asking how she can know whether a medication is safe to take while pregnant.
What is the nurse's best response?
✓ DEA Numbers are given to physicians and pharmacists when they register
with the DEA to prescribe and dispense controlled substances.
A patient asks the nurse, What is a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) number?
What is the nurse's best response?
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Classifications and Dosage Calculations 4th Edition
Verified Newest Version Grade A+
✓ Discard the entire bottle and contents and obtain a new bottle.
The nurse is preparing to administer a medication from a multidose bottle. The
label is torn and soiled but the name of the medication is still readable. What is
the nurse's priority action?
✓ Impact of drugs on the body.
The body's response to a drug. Adverse and anticipated drug effects.
What aspect of pharmacology does a nurse study?
✓ Adverse effects
The nurse, providing patient teaching about home medication use to an older
adult, explains that even when drugs are taken properly they can produce
negative or unexpected effects. What are these negative or unexpected effects
called?
✓ Drug effects
After administering a medication, for what would the nurse assess the patient?
✓ Find a more recent reference source.
The nurse receives an order to administer an unfamiliar medication and obtains a
nurse's drug guide published four years earlier. What is the nurse's most prudent
action?
1|Page
, ✓ Thorough medication teaching about drugs and the drug regimen
What would the nurse provide when preparing a patient for discharge and home
medication self- administration?
✓ Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In response to the patient's question about how to know whether drugs are safe,
the nurse explains that all medications undergo rigorous scientific testing
controlled by what organization?
✓ Drugs pose a greater risk to women of reproductive age.
The nurse, assisting with Phase I drug studies, is talking with a woman who asks,
Why can't I participate in this study? What would be the nurse's best response?
✓ Drugs in the preclinical phase of testing are only tested on animals and so
would not be available to you.
The patient tells the nurse about a new drug being tested to treat the disease she
was diagnosed with and asks the nurse whether the doctor can prescribe a
medication still in the preclinical phase of testing. What is the nurse's best
response?
✓ Your response to this medication will be reported to the drug company
and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
When a drug begins to be used by a large clinical market, new adverse
effects may be found.
The nurse is caring for a patient who had a severe, acute, previously unseen
adverse effect of a drug in Phase III testing. The patient asks, After all the testing
2|Page
, done on this drug, didn't they know this adverse effect could occur? What is the
nurse's best response?
✓ Controlled substances like narcotics are controlled by the FDA and the
DEA.
The telephone triage nurse receives a call from a patient asking for a prescription
for a narcotic to manage his surgical pain. The nurse explains that narcotic
prescriptions must be written and cannot be called in to the pharmacy. The
patient says, Why are narcotics so difficult to get a prescription for? What is the
nurse's best response?
✓ Schedule I medications have no medical use so they are not prescribed.
The nurse explains the Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA's) schedule of controlled
substances to the nursing assistant who asks, Do you ever get a prescription for
Schedule I medications? What is the nurse's best response?
✓ Never take medication until you receive approval from your health care
provider.
The nurse, working on the maternity unit, receives a call from a pregnant woman
asking how she can know whether a medication is safe to take while pregnant.
What is the nurse's best response?
✓ DEA Numbers are given to physicians and pharmacists when they register
with the DEA to prescribe and dispense controlled substances.
A patient asks the nurse, What is a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) number?
What is the nurse's best response?
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