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Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice
Nurse Prescribers Questions with Answers
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?
Ans: The State Board of Nursing for Each State
What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber?
Ans: APRN's care for patients more holistically and include patients in making decisions
regarding their care
What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?
Ans: Factoring in the cost of the particular
What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a disorder?
Ans: Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what?
Ans: NP's have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this important for
prescribers?
Ans: The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what?
Ans: they are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?
Ans: Lungs
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create storage reservoir of
the drug. What are storage reserviors>
Ans: Increased the length of time a drug is available and active
Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does the NP
know?
Ans: Half Life
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Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those of the other four
day; This is considered a loading does. What is a loading dose?
Ans: Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a
therapeutic effect is the:
Ans: Onset of action
Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are peak and trough
levels are done
Ans: To determine if a d rug is in the therapeutic range
Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?
Ans: Concentrations will produce an adverse effect
Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include
Ans: Lipid solubility of the drug
Drugs that are receptors antagonists, such as beta-blockers, may cause what?
Ans: An exaggerated response if abrupt discontinues
Drug administration via IV:
1) need to be lipid soluble in order to absorb easily
2) Begin distribution in the body immediately
3) Are easily absorbed if they are nonionized
4) May use pinocytosis to be absorbed
Ans: Are easily absorbed if they are nonionized
What is the combination effect when a medication is added to a regimen for a
synergistic effect?
Ans: Greater than the sum of the effects of each drug individually
Which of the following statements about bioavailability is true?
1) Bioavailability issues are especially important for drugs with narrow therapeutic
ranges or sustained-release mechanisms.
2) brands of a drug have the same bioavailability.
3) Drugs that are administered more than once a day have greater bioavailability than
drugs given once daily.
4) Combining an active drug with an inert substance does not affect bioavailability.
Ans: Bioavailability issues are especially important for drugs with narrow therapeutic
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Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice
Nurse Prescribers Questions with Answers
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?
Ans: The State Board of Nursing for Each State
What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber?
Ans: APRN's care for patients more holistically and include patients in making decisions
regarding their care
What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?
Ans: Factoring in the cost of the particular
What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a disorder?
Ans: Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what?
Ans: NP's have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this important for
prescribers?
Ans: The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what?
Ans: they are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?
Ans: Lungs
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create storage reservoir of
the drug. What are storage reserviors>
Ans: Increased the length of time a drug is available and active
Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does the NP
know?
Ans: Half Life
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Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those of the other four
day; This is considered a loading does. What is a loading dose?
Ans: Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a
therapeutic effect is the:
Ans: Onset of action
Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are peak and trough
levels are done
Ans: To determine if a d rug is in the therapeutic range
Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?
Ans: Concentrations will produce an adverse effect
Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include
Ans: Lipid solubility of the drug
Drugs that are receptors antagonists, such as beta-blockers, may cause what?
Ans: An exaggerated response if abrupt discontinues
Drug administration via IV:
1) need to be lipid soluble in order to absorb easily
2) Begin distribution in the body immediately
3) Are easily absorbed if they are nonionized
4) May use pinocytosis to be absorbed
Ans: Are easily absorbed if they are nonionized
What is the combination effect when a medication is added to a regimen for a
synergistic effect?
Ans: Greater than the sum of the effects of each drug individually
Which of the following statements about bioavailability is true?
1) Bioavailability issues are especially important for drugs with narrow therapeutic
ranges or sustained-release mechanisms.
2) brands of a drug have the same bioavailability.
3) Drugs that are administered more than once a day have greater bioavailability than
drugs given once daily.
4) Combining an active drug with an inert substance does not affect bioavailability.
Ans: Bioavailability issues are especially important for drugs with narrow therapeutic
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