Nursing 207 Pharmacology Questions With Complete
Solutions
10 Rights Correct Answers drug, patient, dose, route,
time&frequency, documentation, assessment/evaluation, reason,
patient education, refuse
Acquired disease Correct Answers Any disease triggered by
external factors and not directly caused by a person's genes
Acute pain Correct Answers Pain that is sudden and onset,
usually subsides when treated, and typically occurs over less
than a 6-week period
Addiction Correct Answers Strong psychological or physical
dependence on a drug or other psychoactive substance, usually
resulting from habitual use, that is beyond normal voluntary
control
Additive Effects Correct Answers Drug interactions in which
the effect of a combination of two or more drugs with similar
actions, administered at the same time, is the action of the other,
with the total effect of both drugs being given
Adherence Correct Answers Active, voluntary, and
collaborative involvement of the patient in the mutually
acceptable, prescribed course of treatment or therapeutic plan
Adjunct anaesthetics Correct Answers Drugs used in
combination with anaesthetic drugs to control the adverse effects
,of anaesthetics or to help maintain the anaesthetic state in the
patient
Adjuvant analgesic drugs Correct Answers Drugs that are
added for combined therapy with a primary drug and may have
additive or independent analgesic properties, or both
Adverse Drug Events (ADE) Correct Answers Any
undesirable occurrence related to administering or failing to
administer a prescribed medication
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) Correct Answers Any
unexpected, unintended, undesired, or excessive response a
medication given at therapeutic dosages
Adverse Effects Correct Answers A general term for any
undesirable effects that are a direct response to one or more
drugs
Affective Domain (the feeling domain) Correct Answers The
most intangible domain of the learning process. It involves
affective behaviour, which is conduct that expresses feelings,
needs, beliefs, values, and opinions
Agonist-antagonists Correct Answers Substances that bind to a
receptor and cause a partial response that is not as strong as that
caused by agonists
Agonists Correct Answers Drugs that bind to and stimulate the
activity of one or more receptors in the body
, Agonists Correct Answers Substances that bind to a receptor
and cause a response
Alleles Correct Answers The two alternative forms of a gene
that can occupy a specific location on a chromosome
Allergic Reaction Correct Answers An immunologic
hypersensitivity reaction resulting from the unusual sensitivity
of a patient to a particular medication; a type of adverse drug
event
Anaesthesia Correct Answers The loss of the ability to feel
pain resulting from an anaesthetic drug
Anaesthetics Correct Answers Drugs that depress the central
nervous system or peripheral nerves to produce decreased
sensation, loss of sensation or muscle relaxation
Analgesic ceiling effect Correct Answers What occurs when a
particular pain drug no longer effectively controls a patient's
pain despite the administration of the highest safe dosages
Analgesics Correct Answers Medications that relieve pain
Antagonistic Effects Correct Answers Drug interactions in
which the effect of a combination of two or more drugs is less
than the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given
alone; usually caused by an antagonizing (blocking or reducing)
effect of one drug on another
Solutions
10 Rights Correct Answers drug, patient, dose, route,
time&frequency, documentation, assessment/evaluation, reason,
patient education, refuse
Acquired disease Correct Answers Any disease triggered by
external factors and not directly caused by a person's genes
Acute pain Correct Answers Pain that is sudden and onset,
usually subsides when treated, and typically occurs over less
than a 6-week period
Addiction Correct Answers Strong psychological or physical
dependence on a drug or other psychoactive substance, usually
resulting from habitual use, that is beyond normal voluntary
control
Additive Effects Correct Answers Drug interactions in which
the effect of a combination of two or more drugs with similar
actions, administered at the same time, is the action of the other,
with the total effect of both drugs being given
Adherence Correct Answers Active, voluntary, and
collaborative involvement of the patient in the mutually
acceptable, prescribed course of treatment or therapeutic plan
Adjunct anaesthetics Correct Answers Drugs used in
combination with anaesthetic drugs to control the adverse effects
,of anaesthetics or to help maintain the anaesthetic state in the
patient
Adjuvant analgesic drugs Correct Answers Drugs that are
added for combined therapy with a primary drug and may have
additive or independent analgesic properties, or both
Adverse Drug Events (ADE) Correct Answers Any
undesirable occurrence related to administering or failing to
administer a prescribed medication
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) Correct Answers Any
unexpected, unintended, undesired, or excessive response a
medication given at therapeutic dosages
Adverse Effects Correct Answers A general term for any
undesirable effects that are a direct response to one or more
drugs
Affective Domain (the feeling domain) Correct Answers The
most intangible domain of the learning process. It involves
affective behaviour, which is conduct that expresses feelings,
needs, beliefs, values, and opinions
Agonist-antagonists Correct Answers Substances that bind to a
receptor and cause a partial response that is not as strong as that
caused by agonists
Agonists Correct Answers Drugs that bind to and stimulate the
activity of one or more receptors in the body
, Agonists Correct Answers Substances that bind to a receptor
and cause a response
Alleles Correct Answers The two alternative forms of a gene
that can occupy a specific location on a chromosome
Allergic Reaction Correct Answers An immunologic
hypersensitivity reaction resulting from the unusual sensitivity
of a patient to a particular medication; a type of adverse drug
event
Anaesthesia Correct Answers The loss of the ability to feel
pain resulting from an anaesthetic drug
Anaesthetics Correct Answers Drugs that depress the central
nervous system or peripheral nerves to produce decreased
sensation, loss of sensation or muscle relaxation
Analgesic ceiling effect Correct Answers What occurs when a
particular pain drug no longer effectively controls a patient's
pain despite the administration of the highest safe dosages
Analgesics Correct Answers Medications that relieve pain
Antagonistic Effects Correct Answers Drug interactions in
which the effect of a combination of two or more drugs is less
than the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given
alone; usually caused by an antagonizing (blocking or reducing)
effect of one drug on another
