Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse
Prescribers LATEST EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+/
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?
Ans: The State Board of Nursing for Each State
Quiz 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
Quiz What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?
Ans: Factoring in the cost of the particular
Quiz What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a
disorder?
,Ans: Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
Quiz 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
Quiz Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this
important for prescribers?
Ans: The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Quiz 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
Quiz The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?
Ans: Lungs
Quiz 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
Quiz Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does
the NP know?
Ans: Half Life
Quiz 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
Quiz The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign
of a therapeutic effect is the:
Ans: Onset of action
Quiz 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
Quiz Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?
Prescribers LATEST EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+/
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?
Ans: The State Board of Nursing for Each State
Quiz 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
Quiz What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?
Ans: Factoring in the cost of the particular
Quiz What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a
disorder?
,Ans: Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
Quiz 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
Quiz Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this
important for prescribers?
Ans: The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Quiz 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
Quiz The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?
Ans: Lungs
Quiz 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
Quiz Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does
the NP know?
Ans: Half Life
Quiz 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
Quiz The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign
of a therapeutic effect is the:
Ans: Onset of action
Quiz 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
Quiz Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?
