NUR 210 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS
SOLVED QUESTIONS STUDY GUIDE
GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ What response does the Sympathetic Nervous System stimulate?
Answer: Fight or Flight response
◉ What response does the Parasympathetic Nervous System
stimulate? Answer: Rest and Digest
◉ Andregenic Agents can also be known as _____________. Answer:
symapthomometics
◉ The Beta 1 receptor controls what body system? Answer: Cardiac
(heart)
◉ What response in the heart is caused by stimulation of the Beta 1
receptor? Answer: Makes it beat faster and stronger
◉ The Beta 2 receptor controls what body system? Answer:
respiratory (lungs)
◉ What response in the lungs is caused by stimulation of the Beta 2
receptor? Answer: bronchodilation
,◉ Which ANS affecting medication deals with the Sympathetic
nervous system? Answer: Adrenergic Agents
◉ What responses are caused by the stimulation of the Alpha
Receptors? Answer: vasodilation (perpheral vascular), pupilary
dilation
◉ Nervousness, insomnia, fine muscle tremors, palpitation,
tachycardia, and hypertension are all side effects of what agent?
Answer: Adrenergic Agents
◉ What kind of medicine increases the effects of the Parasympathetic
Nervous System? Answer: Cholinergic Agents
◉ What affect do Andrenergic Agents in the cardiac system? Answer:
Tachycardia
◉ What affect do Andrenergic Agents cause in the respiratory
system? Answer: Bronchodilation
◉ What affect do Adrenergic Agents cause in the peripheral vascular
system? Answer: vasoconstriction (causes increased BP)
◉ What affect do Adrenergic Agents have on the eyes? Answer:
pupillary dilation
,◉ What are side effects? Answer: Too much of a good thing
◉ What is another name for Cholinergic Agents? Answer: Muscarinic
Agonists
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents have on the heart? Answer:
slows the heart rate
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents have on the colon? Answer:
Stimulates peristalis (relaxes)
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents have on the bladder? Answer:
increases bladder tone (helps urination)
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents on the eyes? Answer: pupillary
constriction, decreased intraocular pressure
◉ Diarrhea, frequent urination, and blurred distance vision are all side
effects of which agent? Answer: Cholinergic Agents
◉ What medicine blocks the Parasympathetic Nervous System and
doesn't stimulate the Sympathetic Nervous System? (aka a
Cholinergic Blocker) Answer: Anticholinergic Agents
, ◉ Which ANS agent is used prior surgeries to dry out mucous
membranes? Answer: Anticholinergic Agents
◉ Another name for an Anticholinergic Agent is a _______. Answer:
Cholinergic Antagonist
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the cardiac system?
Answer: mild increase in pulse rate
◉ What affect do anticholinergic agents have on the respiratory
system? Answer: mild bronchial dilator
◉ T/F: Anticholinergic Agents are used as a treatment for conditions
requiring total bronchodilation. Answer: False
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the mucous
membranes? Answer: decrease salivation (drys them out)
◉ T/F: Prior to surgery Anticholinergic Agents are given to prevent
aspiration during the procedure. Answer: True
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the colon? Answer:
decreases GI motility
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the eyes? Answer:
pupillary dilation
SOLVED QUESTIONS STUDY GUIDE
GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ What response does the Sympathetic Nervous System stimulate?
Answer: Fight or Flight response
◉ What response does the Parasympathetic Nervous System
stimulate? Answer: Rest and Digest
◉ Andregenic Agents can also be known as _____________. Answer:
symapthomometics
◉ The Beta 1 receptor controls what body system? Answer: Cardiac
(heart)
◉ What response in the heart is caused by stimulation of the Beta 1
receptor? Answer: Makes it beat faster and stronger
◉ The Beta 2 receptor controls what body system? Answer:
respiratory (lungs)
◉ What response in the lungs is caused by stimulation of the Beta 2
receptor? Answer: bronchodilation
,◉ Which ANS affecting medication deals with the Sympathetic
nervous system? Answer: Adrenergic Agents
◉ What responses are caused by the stimulation of the Alpha
Receptors? Answer: vasodilation (perpheral vascular), pupilary
dilation
◉ Nervousness, insomnia, fine muscle tremors, palpitation,
tachycardia, and hypertension are all side effects of what agent?
Answer: Adrenergic Agents
◉ What kind of medicine increases the effects of the Parasympathetic
Nervous System? Answer: Cholinergic Agents
◉ What affect do Andrenergic Agents in the cardiac system? Answer:
Tachycardia
◉ What affect do Andrenergic Agents cause in the respiratory
system? Answer: Bronchodilation
◉ What affect do Adrenergic Agents cause in the peripheral vascular
system? Answer: vasoconstriction (causes increased BP)
◉ What affect do Adrenergic Agents have on the eyes? Answer:
pupillary dilation
,◉ What are side effects? Answer: Too much of a good thing
◉ What is another name for Cholinergic Agents? Answer: Muscarinic
Agonists
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents have on the heart? Answer:
slows the heart rate
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents have on the colon? Answer:
Stimulates peristalis (relaxes)
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents have on the bladder? Answer:
increases bladder tone (helps urination)
◉ What affect do Cholinergic Agents on the eyes? Answer: pupillary
constriction, decreased intraocular pressure
◉ Diarrhea, frequent urination, and blurred distance vision are all side
effects of which agent? Answer: Cholinergic Agents
◉ What medicine blocks the Parasympathetic Nervous System and
doesn't stimulate the Sympathetic Nervous System? (aka a
Cholinergic Blocker) Answer: Anticholinergic Agents
, ◉ Which ANS agent is used prior surgeries to dry out mucous
membranes? Answer: Anticholinergic Agents
◉ Another name for an Anticholinergic Agent is a _______. Answer:
Cholinergic Antagonist
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the cardiac system?
Answer: mild increase in pulse rate
◉ What affect do anticholinergic agents have on the respiratory
system? Answer: mild bronchial dilator
◉ T/F: Anticholinergic Agents are used as a treatment for conditions
requiring total bronchodilation. Answer: False
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the mucous
membranes? Answer: decrease salivation (drys them out)
◉ T/F: Prior to surgery Anticholinergic Agents are given to prevent
aspiration during the procedure. Answer: True
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the colon? Answer:
decreases GI motility
◉ What affect do Anticholinergic Agents have on the eyes? Answer:
pupillary dilation
