Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse

Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers Fifth Edition 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 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