ATI RN PHARMACOLOGY PROCTORED
EXAM 2024-2025 /RN PHARMACOLOGY
ATI PROCTORED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS
GUARANTEED 100% ✅
Why do we do the 5 rights when giving medications? - Answer ✅1. right drug
2. right person
3. right dose
4. right route
5. right time
To ensure patient safety
How many patient identifiers do Why do we do the 5 rights when giving medications? -
Answer ✅1. right drug
2. right person
3. right dose
4. right route
5. right time
To ensure patient safety
@2025 Exam Material 1
,How many patient identifiers do we need? - Answer ✅We need 2 patient identifiers to
ensure that it is the correct patient
How do you give sublingual nitroglycerin - Answer ✅Have patient put medication
underneath their tongue while sitting or lying down
3 doses within 15 minutes with each dose being 3-5 minutes apart
Kept away from light in a container
Systolic must remain above 90
Benefit of giving a transdermal patch? - Answer ✅Gives the medication a constant
level, where the levels in the body do not fluctuate as much
Trough levels - Answer ✅Lowest plasma concentration of a drug and it measures the
rate at which the drug is eliminated from the body
Rate of elimination
Drawn immediately before the next dose is given
What drugs do you draw trough levels for? - Answer ✅Drugs that have a narrow
therapeutic index
Therapeutic index - Answer ✅Estimates the margin of safety for a drug using a ratio
that measures the effective therapeutic dose in 50% of people and the lethal dose in
50% of people
@2025 Exam Material 2
,Closer the number to 1 the higher the likelihood of danger
What drugs do you draw peak and trough levels for? - Answer ✅Digoxin
Aminoglycosides
What are peak levels - Answer ✅Rate of absoprtion
If someone has reoccurring infections and they keep taking antibiotics and they are no
longer working what has happened? - Answer ✅They have developed acquired
bacterial resistance
Onset of action - Answer ✅Time it takes for a drug to reach the minimum effective
concentration after a drug is administered (MEC)
How are drug doses perscribed - Answer ✅According to the % that the drug does not
bind to protein
Any amount of the drug that does not bind to protein has an effect, if it is bound to
protein it cannot do anything
Half-life of a drug - Answer ✅Time it takes for half of the drug concentration to be
eliminated
650mg aspirin half-life: 3hrs it would take 3 hours for 325 to be left and 6 hours for
162mg to be left and so on
Benefits of using a generic drug? - Answer ✅Cost effective
@2025 Exam Material 3
, Who governs all drug administration by nurses? - Answer ✅Nurse practice acts: every
state has its own laws
Native American view about time - Answer ✅They are concentrated about today, not
tomorrow
Exhibit less dependence on a strict time schedule for economic and social activities
Present measures to ease comfort not long term wellness, and more likely to
discontinue meds after feeling better
What drugs are metabolized differently in African Americans and therefore are not as
effective? - Answer ✅Antihyperstensive agents
Beta blocker, and ACE inhibitors
Drug interaction - Answer ✅Altered or modified action or effect of a drug as a result of
interaction with one or multiple drugs
Antagonistic: Cancels out another drug
Synergistic: More effective together
If pt is taking a medication and starts taking an OTC drug as well and states that the
prescription drug is no longer working, why is it no longer working? - Answer ✅Because
of a drug interaction
Anti ulcer drug semedadine/tagment is a? - Answer ✅Hepatic enzyme inhibitor
@2025 Exam Material 4
EXAM 2024-2025 /RN PHARMACOLOGY
ATI PROCTORED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS
GUARANTEED 100% ✅
Why do we do the 5 rights when giving medications? - Answer ✅1. right drug
2. right person
3. right dose
4. right route
5. right time
To ensure patient safety
How many patient identifiers do Why do we do the 5 rights when giving medications? -
Answer ✅1. right drug
2. right person
3. right dose
4. right route
5. right time
To ensure patient safety
@2025 Exam Material 1
,How many patient identifiers do we need? - Answer ✅We need 2 patient identifiers to
ensure that it is the correct patient
How do you give sublingual nitroglycerin - Answer ✅Have patient put medication
underneath their tongue while sitting or lying down
3 doses within 15 minutes with each dose being 3-5 minutes apart
Kept away from light in a container
Systolic must remain above 90
Benefit of giving a transdermal patch? - Answer ✅Gives the medication a constant
level, where the levels in the body do not fluctuate as much
Trough levels - Answer ✅Lowest plasma concentration of a drug and it measures the
rate at which the drug is eliminated from the body
Rate of elimination
Drawn immediately before the next dose is given
What drugs do you draw trough levels for? - Answer ✅Drugs that have a narrow
therapeutic index
Therapeutic index - Answer ✅Estimates the margin of safety for a drug using a ratio
that measures the effective therapeutic dose in 50% of people and the lethal dose in
50% of people
@2025 Exam Material 2
,Closer the number to 1 the higher the likelihood of danger
What drugs do you draw peak and trough levels for? - Answer ✅Digoxin
Aminoglycosides
What are peak levels - Answer ✅Rate of absoprtion
If someone has reoccurring infections and they keep taking antibiotics and they are no
longer working what has happened? - Answer ✅They have developed acquired
bacterial resistance
Onset of action - Answer ✅Time it takes for a drug to reach the minimum effective
concentration after a drug is administered (MEC)
How are drug doses perscribed - Answer ✅According to the % that the drug does not
bind to protein
Any amount of the drug that does not bind to protein has an effect, if it is bound to
protein it cannot do anything
Half-life of a drug - Answer ✅Time it takes for half of the drug concentration to be
eliminated
650mg aspirin half-life: 3hrs it would take 3 hours for 325 to be left and 6 hours for
162mg to be left and so on
Benefits of using a generic drug? - Answer ✅Cost effective
@2025 Exam Material 3
, Who governs all drug administration by nurses? - Answer ✅Nurse practice acts: every
state has its own laws
Native American view about time - Answer ✅They are concentrated about today, not
tomorrow
Exhibit less dependence on a strict time schedule for economic and social activities
Present measures to ease comfort not long term wellness, and more likely to
discontinue meds after feeling better
What drugs are metabolized differently in African Americans and therefore are not as
effective? - Answer ✅Antihyperstensive agents
Beta blocker, and ACE inhibitors
Drug interaction - Answer ✅Altered or modified action or effect of a drug as a result of
interaction with one or multiple drugs
Antagonistic: Cancels out another drug
Synergistic: More effective together
If pt is taking a medication and starts taking an OTC drug as well and states that the
prescription drug is no longer working, why is it no longer working? - Answer ✅Because
of a drug interaction
Anti ulcer drug semedadine/tagment is a? - Answer ✅Hepatic enzyme inhibitor
@2025 Exam Material 4
