Textbook Questions 2025/2026 Exam All
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Which of the following rights is the most recent right to be added to the
list of rights of medication administration?
1. Right to refuse
2. Right route
3. Right medication
4. Right patient - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔right to refuse
The nurse is having difficulty reading a physician's order for a medication.
She knows the physician is very busy and does not like to be called. What
does the nurse do?
,1. Call a pharmacist to interpret the order.
2. Call the physician to have the order clarified.
3. Consult the unit manager to help interpret the order.
4. Ask the unit secretary to interpret the physician's handwriting. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔call the physician to have the order clarified
A patient has a gastrointestinal alteration. Which method of medication
administration should not be used?
1. Oral
2. Topical
3. Inhalation
4. Injection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Oral
4. Most medication errors occur when the nurse:
1. Fails to follow routine procedures
2. Is responsible for administering numerous medications
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,3. Is caring for too many patients
4. Is administering unfamiliar medications - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fails to follow routine
procedures
A patient is to receive cephalexin (Keflex) 500 mg PO. The pharmacy has
sent 250 mg tablets. How many tablets should the nurse give?
1. 0.5 tablet
2. 1 tablet
3. 1.5 tablets
4. 2 tablets - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2 tablets
A medication injection into the loose connective tissue under the dermis is
known as what kind of injection?
1. An intramuscular injection
2. An intravenous injection
3. A subcutaneous injection
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, 4. An intradermal injection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a subcutaneous injection
Nurses are responsible for following legal provisions when administering
controlled substances or narcotics. What may be the result of a nurse's
failure to comply?
1. Fines, imprisonment, and loss of nurse licensure
2. Loss of employment
3. Medication errors
4. Poor health outcomes resulting from narcotic use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fines,
imprisonment, and loss of nurse licensure
Pharmacokinetics is the study of how medications:
1. Are derived from plants
2. Enter the body, reach their site of action, are metabolized, and exit the
body
3. Are used for certain disease processes
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