Pharmacology: Connections to Nursing Practice, 5e (Adams)
Chapter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology: Concepts and Connections
1) The nurse is teaching a pharmacology class to a group of student nurses. Which key events
does the nurse include in the history of pharmacology?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Select all that apply.
1. Early researchers used themselves and animals as test subjects.
2. Pharmacologists began to synthesize drugs in the laboratory in the 20th century.
3. Modern pharmacology began in the mid-1600s.
4. The first drugs included morphine, cocaine, and penicillin.
5. The Dark Ages provided much useful information that we still use today.
Answer: 1, 2
Explanation: Early researchers did use themselves and animals as test subjects.
Pharmacologists did begin to synthesize drugs in the laboratory in the 20th century.
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Relationship
Centered Care: Learn cooperatively, facilitate the learning of others | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
2) Although all areas of medicine, including pharmacology, have made great advances in the past
century, the early roots of pharmacology still apply for the nurse and other health professionals.
What were the early roots of pharmacology?
1. Applying products to relieve human suffering
2. Creating new drugs as quickly as possible
3. Finding medicinal alternatives to plants
4. Understanding how drugs cause their effects
Answer: 1
Explanation: The early root of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
Cognitive Level: Remembering
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Relationship
Centered Care: Learn cooperatively, facilitate the learning of others | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
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,3) Although many substances can be considered drugs, which drug definition is the most
appropriate?
1. Any substance that is found in nature or that normally occurs in the body
2. Any substance that is synthesized and tested in the laboratory setting
3. Any substance that is taken to prevent, cure, or reduce symptoms of a medical condition
4. Any substance that can be isolated from substances found in nature
Answer: 3
Explanation: A drug is considered to be any substance that is taken to prevent, cure, or reduce
symptoms of a medical condition.
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-2 Compare and contrast the terms drug, pharmacology, and
pharmacotherapy.
4) Pharmacotherapy is a critical intervention for many conditions, and a key part of nursing
intervention. Which statement best describes pharmacotherapy?
1. The study of medicine and drug therapy
2. The application of natural substances to cure diseases
3. The application of drugs for the prevention and treatment of disease and human suffering
4. Understanding the difference between trade and generic medications
Answer: 3
Explanation: Pharmacotherapy is the application of drugs for the prevention and treatment of
diseases and human suffering.
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-2 Compare and contrast the terms drug, pharmacology, and
pharmacotherapy.
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, 5) Which principle best describes what the nurse is expected to understand when administering
medication to a client?
1. The pharmacotherapeutics for all of the medications
2. The most common side effects of the drug's prototype
3. The trade and generic names for all of the medications
4. The cost of the drug therapy from different drug manufacturers
Answer: 1
Explanation: The nurse should understand the pharmacotherapeutics for all medications that
the client is receiving.
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-3 Explain the importance of pharmacotherapy to clinical nursing
practice.
6) The Food and Drug Administration classifies drugs by category, and these categories and
drugs are found in the "Orange Book." To find out which drugs treat hypertension, the nurse
would look under which classification?
1. Cardiac
2. Pharmacologic
3. Disease
4. Therapeutic
Answer: 4
Explanation: The nurse would look under the therapeutic category to find out what conditions a
drug will treat.
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment
Learning Outcome: 1-4 Using specific examples, explain the difference between the
pharmacologic and therapeutic methods of classifying drugs.
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology: Concepts and Connections
1) The nurse is teaching a pharmacology class to a group of student nurses. Which key events
does the nurse include in the history of pharmacology?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Select all that apply.
1. Early researchers used themselves and animals as test subjects.
2. Pharmacologists began to synthesize drugs in the laboratory in the 20th century.
3. Modern pharmacology began in the mid-1600s.
4. The first drugs included morphine, cocaine, and penicillin.
5. The Dark Ages provided much useful information that we still use today.
Answer: 1, 2
Explanation: Early researchers did use themselves and animals as test subjects.
Pharmacologists did begin to synthesize drugs in the laboratory in the 20th century.
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Relationship
Centered Care: Learn cooperatively, facilitate the learning of others | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
2) Although all areas of medicine, including pharmacology, have made great advances in the past
century, the early roots of pharmacology still apply for the nurse and other health professionals.
What were the early roots of pharmacology?
1. Applying products to relieve human suffering
2. Creating new drugs as quickly as possible
3. Finding medicinal alternatives to plants
4. Understanding how drugs cause their effects
Answer: 1
Explanation: The early root of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
Cognitive Level: Remembering
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Relationship
Centered Care: Learn cooperatively, facilitate the learning of others | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
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,3) Although many substances can be considered drugs, which drug definition is the most
appropriate?
1. Any substance that is found in nature or that normally occurs in the body
2. Any substance that is synthesized and tested in the laboratory setting
3. Any substance that is taken to prevent, cure, or reduce symptoms of a medical condition
4. Any substance that can be isolated from substances found in nature
Answer: 3
Explanation: A drug is considered to be any substance that is taken to prevent, cure, or reduce
symptoms of a medical condition.
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-2 Compare and contrast the terms drug, pharmacology, and
pharmacotherapy.
4) Pharmacotherapy is a critical intervention for many conditions, and a key part of nursing
intervention. Which statement best describes pharmacotherapy?
1. The study of medicine and drug therapy
2. The application of natural substances to cure diseases
3. The application of drugs for the prevention and treatment of disease and human suffering
4. Understanding the difference between trade and generic medications
Answer: 3
Explanation: Pharmacotherapy is the application of drugs for the prevention and treatment of
diseases and human suffering.
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-2 Compare and contrast the terms drug, pharmacology, and
pharmacotherapy.
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, 5) Which principle best describes what the nurse is expected to understand when administering
medication to a client?
1. The pharmacotherapeutics for all of the medications
2. The most common side effects of the drug's prototype
3. The trade and generic names for all of the medications
4. The cost of the drug therapy from different drug manufacturers
Answer: 1
Explanation: The nurse should understand the pharmacotherapeutics for all medications that
the client is receiving.
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-3 Explain the importance of pharmacotherapy to clinical nursing
practice.
6) The Food and Drug Administration classifies drugs by category, and these categories and
drugs are found in the "Orange Book." To find out which drugs treat hypertension, the nurse
would look under which classification?
1. Cardiac
2. Pharmacologic
3. Disease
4. Therapeutic
Answer: 4
Explanation: The nurse would look under the therapeutic category to find out what conditions a
drug will treat.
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: III.A.1 Demonstrate knowledge of basic scientific methods
and processes | AACN Essential Competencies: IX.3 Implement holistic, patient-centered care
that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology,
pharmacology, medical management and nursing management across the health-illness
continuum, across lifespan, and in all healthcare settings | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and
Science: Relationships between knowledge/science and quality and safe patient care |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment
Learning Outcome: 1-4 Using specific examples, explain the difference between the
pharmacologic and therapeutic methods of classifying drugs.
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