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NURS 676 ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTION AND
ANSWERS LATEST 2025-2026 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
Question 1
Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary for the patient on nitroglycerin therapy?
To inhibit the development of tolerance
Question 2
What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate?
Hyperthroidism
Question 3
What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with a low TSH level with?
Propanolol (Inderal)
Question 4
Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)?
Aldosterone antagonist
Question 5
Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what?
Upregulating the activity of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules, antithrombin III
Question 6
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What physiologic action happens when the offending drug is administered during an anaphylactic
reaction.
Mast cells liberate large doses of histamine.
Question 7
What are two systemic psoriasis medications?
Photo-therapy and topical corticosteroids
Question 8
What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients with uncomplicated stage I
hypertension?
Thiazide diuretics
Question 9
What is the effect of cardiac glycosides?
Digitalis glycosides have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle cells.
Question 10
Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control medication?
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
Question 11
What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine for available beta-receptor sites?
Atenolol (Tenormin)
Question 12
What type of action does nitrates have on the body?
Reduction in systemic venous tone.
NURS 676 ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTION AND
ANSWERS LATEST 2025-2026 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
Question 1
Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary for the patient on nitroglycerin therapy?
To inhibit the development of tolerance
Question 2
What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate?
Hyperthroidism
Question 3
What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with a low TSH level with?
Propanolol (Inderal)
Question 4
Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)?
Aldosterone antagonist
Question 5
Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what?
Upregulating the activity of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules, antithrombin III
Question 6
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What physiologic action happens when the offending drug is administered during an anaphylactic
reaction.
Mast cells liberate large doses of histamine.
Question 7
What are two systemic psoriasis medications?
Photo-therapy and topical corticosteroids
Question 8
What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients with uncomplicated stage I
hypertension?
Thiazide diuretics
Question 9
What is the effect of cardiac glycosides?
Digitalis glycosides have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle cells.
Question 10
Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control medication?
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
Question 11
What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine for available beta-receptor sites?
Atenolol (Tenormin)
Question 12
What type of action does nitrates have on the body?
Reduction in systemic venous tone.
