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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology
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1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of pharmacology with a student
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nurse.Which student comment indicates an understanding?
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2. "A primary goal of pharmacology is to prevent disease."
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3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included morphine,
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Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
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2) A student nurse asks a nursing instructor why anatomy and physiology as
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learn about pharmacology. What is the best response by the instructor?
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1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects." vb vb vb vb vb vb vb
2. "You must learn all, since all of those subjects are part of the curriculum."
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4. "An understanding of those subjects is essential to understand
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Pharmacology for Nurses-A Pathophysiologic Approach,
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6th Edition (Adams, 2020), Chapters 1 - 50
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology
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1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of pharmacology with a student
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nurse.Which student comment indicates an understanding?
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1. "Early researchers used themselves as test subjects." vb vb vb vb vb vb
2. "A primary goal of pharmacology is to prevent disease."
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3. "Penicillin is one of the initial drugs isolated from a natural source." vb vb vb vb vb vb vb vb vb vb vb
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3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included morphine,
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colchicine,curare, and cocaine, but not penicillin.
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4. By the twentieth century, pharmacologists could synthesize drugs in
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learn about pharmacology. What is the best response by the instructor?
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