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PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSES-A
PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC APPROACH,
7TH EDITION (ADAMS, 2024/2025),
CHAPTERS 1 - 50
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
,
, Pharmacology for Nurses, 7e (Adams)
Chapter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology
1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of pharmacology with a student nurse.
Which student comment indicates an understanding?
1. "Early researchers used themselves as test subjects." ✔✔
2. "A primary goal of pharmacology is to prevent disease."
3. "Penicillin is one of the initial drugs isolated from a natural source."
4. "Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the laboratory in the nineteenth
century."
📖 Explanation:
✔✔ Correct (Option 1): Some early pharmacology pioneers, such as Friedrich
Serturner, tested new substances like morphine on themselves to understand drug
effects.
✘ Option 2: The early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering, not
specifically to prevent disease.
✘ Option 3: While penicillin is natural, it wasn’t one of the earliest drugs isolated.
Early drugs included morphine, colchicine, curare, and cocaine.
✘ Option 4: Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the 20th century, not the
19th.
📚 Page Reference: p. 3
🧠 Cognitive Level: Applying
💡 Learning Outcome: Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
Page Ref: 3
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I.A.1 Integrate understanding of multiple dimensions
of patient-centered care: patient/family/community preferences, values; coordination
and integration of care; information, communication, and education; physical comfort
and emotional support; involvement of family and friends; and transition and continuity.
| AACN Essential Competencies: I.7 Integrate the knowledge and methods of a variety of
disciplines to inform decision making. | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and Science:
Integration of knowledge from nursing and other disciplines. | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Evaluation
Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and
pharmacology.
1) A student nurse asks a nursing instructor why anatomy and physiology as well as
microbiology are required courses when the student only wants to learn about
pharmacology. What is the best response by the instructor?
1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects."
2. "You must learn all, since all of those subjects are part of the curriculum."
3. "Knowledge of all those subjects will prepare you to administer medication."
4. "An understanding of those subjects is essential to understand pharmacology."
PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSES-A
PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC APPROACH,
7TH EDITION (ADAMS, 2024/2025),
CHAPTERS 1 - 50
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
,
, Pharmacology for Nurses, 7e (Adams)
Chapter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology
1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of pharmacology with a student nurse.
Which student comment indicates an understanding?
1. "Early researchers used themselves as test subjects." ✔✔
2. "A primary goal of pharmacology is to prevent disease."
3. "Penicillin is one of the initial drugs isolated from a natural source."
4. "Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the laboratory in the nineteenth
century."
📖 Explanation:
✔✔ Correct (Option 1): Some early pharmacology pioneers, such as Friedrich
Serturner, tested new substances like morphine on themselves to understand drug
effects.
✘ Option 2: The early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering, not
specifically to prevent disease.
✘ Option 3: While penicillin is natural, it wasn’t one of the earliest drugs isolated.
Early drugs included morphine, colchicine, curare, and cocaine.
✘ Option 4: Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the 20th century, not the
19th.
📚 Page Reference: p. 3
🧠 Cognitive Level: Applying
💡 Learning Outcome: Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
Page Ref: 3
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I.A.1 Integrate understanding of multiple dimensions
of patient-centered care: patient/family/community preferences, values; coordination
and integration of care; information, communication, and education; physical comfort
and emotional support; involvement of family and friends; and transition and continuity.
| AACN Essential Competencies: I.7 Integrate the knowledge and methods of a variety of
disciplines to inform decision making. | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and Science:
Integration of knowledge from nursing and other disciplines. | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Evaluation
Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and
pharmacology.
1) A student nurse asks a nursing instructor why anatomy and physiology as well as
microbiology are required courses when the student only wants to learn about
pharmacology. What is the best response by the instructor?
1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects."
2. "You must learn all, since all of those subjects are part of the curriculum."
3. "Knowledge of all those subjects will prepare you to administer medication."
4. "An understanding of those subjects is essential to understand pharmacology."
