RN Pharmacology ATI Proctored Exam Retake 2024/2025
with NGN Questions and Revised Answers,
100% Graded A+
With 50 multiple choices questions and answers
1. When a patient has been receiving sodium nitroprusside for 1 week, the nurse
should be alert for:: thiocyanate accumulation, evidenced by disorientation and
delirium
2. Your patient is taking lisinopril for hypertension. His blood pressure still re-
mains slightly elevated and the physician would like to order a diuretic. Which of
the following diuretics would be inappropriate to prescribe?: triamterene
3. How would the nurse expect calcium channel blockers to physiologically
affect the function of the heart?: Decrease AV node conduction
4. The patient takes insulin for diabetes mellitus.The physician orders atenolol for
his hypertension. After medication teaching, the nurse determines that learning
has been effective when the patient makes which statement?: "This medication
can enhance the effects of my insulin."
5. Your patient is receiving 40 mg of furosemide every day, enteric-coated aspirin
325 mg every day and digoxin 0.25 mg every day.Your patient suddenly begins
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, complaining of muscle weakness and seeing yellow halos around lights. What
are your suspicions?: digitalis toxicity due to hypokalemia
6. Your patient is experiencing an emergent hypertensive crisis. The provider has
ordered nitroprusside. Before administration, you should take action to:: protect
the solution from sunlight/bright light by covering it up
7. Your patient is receiving a beta-blocker for his high blood pressure. He arrives
in the ER with complaints of severe dizziness and shortness of breath. As you
obtain his apical rate, you notive it is 40 bpm and realize the patient has taken too
much of the drug. What antidote should be administered?: atropine
8. A direct vasodilator that relaxes capacitance vessels (veins) has what ben-
eficial effect in the body?: Decreases preload
9. Your patient has been diagnosed with unstable angina. What is the antici-
pated treatment? ("select all that apply"): Morphine
Supplemental Oxygen
Nitroglycerin
Aspirin
10. In addition to hypertension, alpha-1 blockers, such as doxazosin, may be
useful in the treatment of:: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH)
11. hydralazine and isosorbide are used in combination for heart failure pa-
tients because they cause synergistic effects and can avoid the tolerance that
occurs with using isosorbide alone. What other beneficial fact is related to this
combination agent?: First drug labeled for use in a specific race (African
Americans)
12. Which of the following diuretics is the drug of choice in the treatment of
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with NGN Questions and Revised Answers,
100% Graded A+
With 50 multiple choices questions and answers
1. When a patient has been receiving sodium nitroprusside for 1 week, the nurse
should be alert for:: thiocyanate accumulation, evidenced by disorientation and
delirium
2. Your patient is taking lisinopril for hypertension. His blood pressure still re-
mains slightly elevated and the physician would like to order a diuretic. Which of
the following diuretics would be inappropriate to prescribe?: triamterene
3. How would the nurse expect calcium channel blockers to physiologically
affect the function of the heart?: Decrease AV node conduction
4. The patient takes insulin for diabetes mellitus.The physician orders atenolol for
his hypertension. After medication teaching, the nurse determines that learning
has been effective when the patient makes which statement?: "This medication
can enhance the effects of my insulin."
5. Your patient is receiving 40 mg of furosemide every day, enteric-coated aspirin
325 mg every day and digoxin 0.25 mg every day.Your patient suddenly begins
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11
, complaining of muscle weakness and seeing yellow halos around lights. What
are your suspicions?: digitalis toxicity due to hypokalemia
6. Your patient is experiencing an emergent hypertensive crisis. The provider has
ordered nitroprusside. Before administration, you should take action to:: protect
the solution from sunlight/bright light by covering it up
7. Your patient is receiving a beta-blocker for his high blood pressure. He arrives
in the ER with complaints of severe dizziness and shortness of breath. As you
obtain his apical rate, you notive it is 40 bpm and realize the patient has taken too
much of the drug. What antidote should be administered?: atropine
8. A direct vasodilator that relaxes capacitance vessels (veins) has what ben-
eficial effect in the body?: Decreases preload
9. Your patient has been diagnosed with unstable angina. What is the antici-
pated treatment? ("select all that apply"): Morphine
Supplemental Oxygen
Nitroglycerin
Aspirin
10. In addition to hypertension, alpha-1 blockers, such as doxazosin, may be
useful in the treatment of:: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH)
11. hydralazine and isosorbide are used in combination for heart failure pa-
tients because they cause synergistic effects and can avoid the tolerance that
occurs with using isosorbide alone. What other beneficial fact is related to this
combination agent?: First drug labeled for use in a specific race (African
Americans)
12. Which of the following diuretics is the drug of choice in the treatment of
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