TEST BANK for Pharmacology for Nurses:
A Pathophysiologic Approach 7th Edition by
Michael Adams, Norman Holland
VERIFIED CHAPTERS 1-50 WITH
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
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, 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." Accurate
Answer> 1
Explanation:
1. Some early researchers, like Friedrich Serturner, used themselves as test subjects.
2. An early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included morphine, colchicine, curare, and cocaine,
but not penicillin.
4. By the twentieth century, pharmacologists could synthesize drugs in the laboratory. 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.
2) 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?
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1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects."
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,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." Accurate Answer>
4
Explanation:
1. Pharmacology is an outgrowth of anatomy, physiology, and microbiology, but this is not the most
essential reason for the nurse to learn them.
2. The nurse must learn anatomy, physiology, and microbiology to understand pharmacology, not
because they are part of the curriculum.
3. Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and microbiology prepares the nurse to understand
pharmacology, not to provide care such as administration of medications.
4. It is essential for the nurse to have a broad knowledge base of many sciences in order to learn
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: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-2 Explain the interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology, giving an example of how
knowledge from different sciences impacts the nurse's role in drug administration.
MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
3) A nurse is teaching a group of nurses about the differences between pharmacology and therapeutics.
The nurse determines that learning has occurred when which statements are made?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that
apply.
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1. "Pharmacology is the development of medicines."
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, 2. "Pharmacology is the study of medicines."
3. "Therapeutics relates to drug use to treat suffering."
4. "Therapeutics is the study of drug interactions."
5. "Pharmacology is the study of drugs to prevent disease." Accurate Answer> 2, 3, 5
Explanation:
1. Pharmacology is not the development of medicines.
2. Pharmacology is the study of medicines.
3. Therapeutics is the use of drugs in the treatment of suffering.
4. Therapeutics is not related to study of drug interactions.
5. Pharmacotherapy is the application of drugs for the purpose of disease prevention. Page Ref: 4
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: 1-3 Compare and contrast therapeutics and pharmacology.
MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
4) A nurse administers a vaccine to a client. What is the nurse's best understanding as it relates to the
manufacture of a vaccine?
1. The vaccine is produced by natural plant extracts in the laboratory.
2. The vaccine is naturally produced in animal cells or microorganisms.
3. The vaccine is produced by a combination of animal and plant products.
4. The vaccine is most commonly synthesized in a laboratory. Accurate Answer> 2
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Explanation:
1. Vaccines are not produced by natural plant extracts.
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A Pathophysiologic Approach 7th Edition by
Michael Adams, Norman Holland
VERIFIED CHAPTERS 1-50 WITH
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
TB
Ac
Page | 1
er
, 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." Accurate
Answer> 1
Explanation:
1. Some early researchers, like Friedrich Serturner, used themselves as test subjects.
2. An early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included morphine, colchicine, curare, and cocaine,
but not penicillin.
4. By the twentieth century, pharmacologists could synthesize drugs in the laboratory. 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.
2) 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?
TB
1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects."
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Page | 2
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,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." Accurate Answer>
4
Explanation:
1. Pharmacology is an outgrowth of anatomy, physiology, and microbiology, but this is not the most
essential reason for the nurse to learn them.
2. The nurse must learn anatomy, physiology, and microbiology to understand pharmacology, not
because they are part of the curriculum.
3. Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and microbiology prepares the nurse to understand
pharmacology, not to provide care such as administration of medications.
4. It is essential for the nurse to have a broad knowledge base of many sciences in order to learn
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: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-2 Explain the interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology, giving an example of how
knowledge from different sciences impacts the nurse's role in drug administration.
MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
3) A nurse is teaching a group of nurses about the differences between pharmacology and therapeutics.
The nurse determines that learning has occurred when which statements are made?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that
apply.
TB
1. "Pharmacology is the development of medicines."
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, 2. "Pharmacology is the study of medicines."
3. "Therapeutics relates to drug use to treat suffering."
4. "Therapeutics is the study of drug interactions."
5. "Pharmacology is the study of drugs to prevent disease." Accurate Answer> 2, 3, 5
Explanation:
1. Pharmacology is not the development of medicines.
2. Pharmacology is the study of medicines.
3. Therapeutics is the use of drugs in the treatment of suffering.
4. Therapeutics is not related to study of drug interactions.
5. Pharmacotherapy is the application of drugs for the purpose of disease prevention. Page Ref: 4
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: 1-3 Compare and contrast therapeutics and pharmacology.
MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
4) A nurse administers a vaccine to a client. What is the nurse's best understanding as it relates to the
manufacture of a vaccine?
1. The vaccine is produced by natural plant extracts in the laboratory.
2. The vaccine is naturally produced in animal cells or microorganisms.
3. The vaccine is produced by a combination of animal and plant products.
4. The vaccine is most commonly synthesized in a laboratory. Accurate Answer> 2
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Explanation:
1. Vaccines are not produced by natural plant extracts.
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