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Intergrated process: nursing process
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A professional nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed tomo
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graphy (CT) scan. The nurse working on the oncology unit administers chemotherapy to patients w
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ho have cancer. At the Public Health Department, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-
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rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month- vn vn vn vn vn
old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actions of a
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ll three nurses?
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Pharmacoeconomics vn
Pharmacotherapeutics v
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: B
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Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with clinical phar
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macology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drug
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s to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease. The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help diagnose
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a disease. The oncology nurse is administering a drug to help treat a disease.
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Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how a d vn vn vn vn vn vn vn vn vn vn vn vn
rug affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on the body.
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A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as needed for
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pain in a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this drug has a high abuse potential.
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Under what category would morphine be classified?
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Ans: B
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Narcotics with a high abuse potential are classified as Schedule II drugs because of severe dependence
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