NUR 2474 Pharm Exam 1 (New 2026/ 2027
Update) Questions & Answers {Grade A}
100% Correct (Verified Solutions)
Explain acute dystonia - correct answer slow muscle movement and spasticity
Explain oculogyric crisis - correct answer upward deviation of the eyes
Explain opisthotonus - correct answer back spasticity
Explain joint dislocation - correct answer from the muscle spasms, can be painful
Explain impaired breathing - correct answer the diaphragm cannot work correctly due
to slowing of movement
Explain akathisia - correct answer compulsive, restless movement, need to be in
motion with anxiety.
,Explain parkinsonism - correct answer drug induced parkinson's: bradykinesia, mask
like face, tremor, rigidity, shuffling gait, drooling, cog wheeling, stooped posture
How do we treat early eps? - correct answer anticholinergics, bentos, beta blocker
Explain tardive dyskinesia - correct answer choreoathetoid movements of the tongue
and face, lip smacking movement, fly catching tongue, slow worm like tongue
movement, involuntary movements of limbs, tones, hips and fingers.
How do you treat late eps? - correct answer no treatment, but you can prevent it. D/c
all medications and switch to 2nd generation antipsychotic
What do tcas treat? - correct answer major depression
How do tcas work - correct answer blocks serotonin and ne reuptake
What are the side effects of tcas - correct answer sedation, orthostatic hypotension,
anticholinergic
,What is the most dangerous effect of tcas - correct answer cardiac toxicity
S/s of cardiac toxicity in tcas - correct answer dysrhythmias, tachycardia, heart
blocks, v tach, v fib
How do we treat cardiac toxicity in tcas? - correct answer no antidote, treat with
gastric lavage, activated charcoal, iv hco3
What do neuroleptics do? - correct answer it blocks dopamine. Only increase the
effects of parkinson's disease, as they will induce parkinson's symptoms with eps, it is
an additive relationship.
What is the issue with using a neuroleptic with a patient with parkinson's disease? -
correct answer will worsen the parkinson's disease symptoms. Would be appropriate
to use a 2nd generation antipsychotic
A neuroleptic is the same as an__________ - correct answer antipsychotic
, Explain the concept of half life and how to solve them - correct answer the amount of
time ½ of the drug is taken out of the system.
To solve: divide by 1/2 he medication dosage by each half life. Ex: if a drug has 4 half
lives, you divide the medication 4 times by 1/2
What can occur when one begins to not use an antipsychotic medication because of the
parkinsons symptoms ? - correct answer the parkinson's symptoms will go away, but
because you stop the antipsychotic, the psychotic symptoms will come back.
What do maois interact heavily with? - correct answer tyramine
What happens if a person using an maoi eats a food that is high in tyramine? - correct
answer hypertensive crisis
Explain the s/s of hypertensive crisis - correct answer severe ha, tachycardia,
hypertension, n,v, confusion, sweating, stroke, death
Update) Questions & Answers {Grade A}
100% Correct (Verified Solutions)
Explain acute dystonia - correct answer slow muscle movement and spasticity
Explain oculogyric crisis - correct answer upward deviation of the eyes
Explain opisthotonus - correct answer back spasticity
Explain joint dislocation - correct answer from the muscle spasms, can be painful
Explain impaired breathing - correct answer the diaphragm cannot work correctly due
to slowing of movement
Explain akathisia - correct answer compulsive, restless movement, need to be in
motion with anxiety.
,Explain parkinsonism - correct answer drug induced parkinson's: bradykinesia, mask
like face, tremor, rigidity, shuffling gait, drooling, cog wheeling, stooped posture
How do we treat early eps? - correct answer anticholinergics, bentos, beta blocker
Explain tardive dyskinesia - correct answer choreoathetoid movements of the tongue
and face, lip smacking movement, fly catching tongue, slow worm like tongue
movement, involuntary movements of limbs, tones, hips and fingers.
How do you treat late eps? - correct answer no treatment, but you can prevent it. D/c
all medications and switch to 2nd generation antipsychotic
What do tcas treat? - correct answer major depression
How do tcas work - correct answer blocks serotonin and ne reuptake
What are the side effects of tcas - correct answer sedation, orthostatic hypotension,
anticholinergic
,What is the most dangerous effect of tcas - correct answer cardiac toxicity
S/s of cardiac toxicity in tcas - correct answer dysrhythmias, tachycardia, heart
blocks, v tach, v fib
How do we treat cardiac toxicity in tcas? - correct answer no antidote, treat with
gastric lavage, activated charcoal, iv hco3
What do neuroleptics do? - correct answer it blocks dopamine. Only increase the
effects of parkinson's disease, as they will induce parkinson's symptoms with eps, it is
an additive relationship.
What is the issue with using a neuroleptic with a patient with parkinson's disease? -
correct answer will worsen the parkinson's disease symptoms. Would be appropriate
to use a 2nd generation antipsychotic
A neuroleptic is the same as an__________ - correct answer antipsychotic
, Explain the concept of half life and how to solve them - correct answer the amount of
time ½ of the drug is taken out of the system.
To solve: divide by 1/2 he medication dosage by each half life. Ex: if a drug has 4 half
lives, you divide the medication 4 times by 1/2
What can occur when one begins to not use an antipsychotic medication because of the
parkinsons symptoms ? - correct answer the parkinson's symptoms will go away, but
because you stop the antipsychotic, the psychotic symptoms will come back.
What do maois interact heavily with? - correct answer tyramine
What happens if a person using an maoi eats a food that is high in tyramine? - correct
answer hypertensive crisis
Explain the s/s of hypertensive crisis - correct answer severe ha, tachycardia,
hypertension, n,v, confusion, sweating, stroke, death
