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Test Bank for Understanding Pharmacology
Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd
Edition by M. Linda Workman & LaCha




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Medication Safety, 3rd Edition,Workman & LaCharity
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Chapter 01: Drug Regulation, Actions, and Responses
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MULTIPLE CHOICE B




B BASIC

CONCEPTS
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1. Which health care professional has the major responsibility for dispensing
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a. Physician prescribed drugs under the direction of a pharmacist? B B B B B B B B B B




b Nurse practitioner
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c. Licensed nurse
d Pharmacy
. ntechnician
ANS: D B B




The physician and nurse practitioner have the major B B B B B B B




responsibility for prescribing drugs, not dispensing them. The licensed nurse
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has the primary responsibility for administering
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under some circumstances a licensed nurse may dispense B B B B B B




prescribed drugs but this is not his or her major responsibility in drug
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therapy. The pharmacy technician has the major responsibility of dispensing
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prescribed drugs under the direction of a licensed pharmacist.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering B B B B REF: p. 3

2. Which term describes the effect of a drug that improves body function?
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a. Side effect B B




b Intendedbnaction
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c. Adverse reaction B B




d Idiosyncratic
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The purpose of drug therapy is to take a drug to
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or correct ahealth problem. This response is
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