FORTIS COLLEGE PHARMACOLOGY
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Right drug - Answer ✅Correct medication to be administered
Right dose - Answer ✅Verification of the amount of the prescribed medication given to the
patient
Right time - Answer ✅Time medications need to be administered. 30 min before or 30 min after
last dose.
Right rout - Answer ✅Verification of the rout medication needs to be administered
Right patient - Answer ✅Requires confirmation of the person receiving the medication. Two
identifiers needed: Name and Birth date. An ID can be used.
Nursing Process - Answer ✅ADPIE: Assessment- collecting data
Diagnosis- Objective or subjective data
Plan- planning what is going to happen
Implement- take to action
Evaluate- how meds worked.
Category D drugs - Answer ✅Benefit for the mother, might hurt baby
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, Category X drugs - Answer ✅No benefit for mother or baby. Not safe during pregnancy
Polypharmacy - Answer ✅Many different drugs treating the patient with several health
problems
Pharmacokinetics - Answer ✅Process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed within the body,
metabolized, and excreted. (effect from when drugs enter the body until it leaves.
Radioactive dosing - Answer ✅Weight= how to dose
Ethnicity - Answer ✅Different medications metabolize different depending on the ethnicity.
Africans with anti hypertensive (Blood Pressure) drugs - Answer ✅Diuretics work better than
Beta blockers. Calcium channel blockers work better specially Diazepam.
Asians and Hispanics with Psychotic and anti anxiety drugs - Answer ✅Asians need lower doses
of these drugs such as Haloperidol.
Asians and Hispanics respond better to lower doses of antidepressants.
Chinese require lower doses of psychotics.
Japanese require lower dosages of antimanic drugs
Teaching plan - Answer ✅Make sure they understand. They repeat what we said or showed
them.
Before giving meds, what should the RN do? - Answer ✅PO assessment. determine patient
ability to take medication successfully.
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EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PASS GUARANTEED 100%
Right drug - Answer ✅Correct medication to be administered
Right dose - Answer ✅Verification of the amount of the prescribed medication given to the
patient
Right time - Answer ✅Time medications need to be administered. 30 min before or 30 min after
last dose.
Right rout - Answer ✅Verification of the rout medication needs to be administered
Right patient - Answer ✅Requires confirmation of the person receiving the medication. Two
identifiers needed: Name and Birth date. An ID can be used.
Nursing Process - Answer ✅ADPIE: Assessment- collecting data
Diagnosis- Objective or subjective data
Plan- planning what is going to happen
Implement- take to action
Evaluate- how meds worked.
Category D drugs - Answer ✅Benefit for the mother, might hurt baby
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, Category X drugs - Answer ✅No benefit for mother or baby. Not safe during pregnancy
Polypharmacy - Answer ✅Many different drugs treating the patient with several health
problems
Pharmacokinetics - Answer ✅Process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed within the body,
metabolized, and excreted. (effect from when drugs enter the body until it leaves.
Radioactive dosing - Answer ✅Weight= how to dose
Ethnicity - Answer ✅Different medications metabolize different depending on the ethnicity.
Africans with anti hypertensive (Blood Pressure) drugs - Answer ✅Diuretics work better than
Beta blockers. Calcium channel blockers work better specially Diazepam.
Asians and Hispanics with Psychotic and anti anxiety drugs - Answer ✅Asians need lower doses
of these drugs such as Haloperidol.
Asians and Hispanics respond better to lower doses of antidepressants.
Chinese require lower doses of psychotics.
Japanese require lower dosages of antimanic drugs
Teaching plan - Answer ✅Make sure they understand. They repeat what we said or showed
them.
Before giving meds, what should the RN do? - Answer ✅PO assessment. determine patient
ability to take medication successfully.
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