Complete Test Bank _ Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiologic Approach 7th Edition, (2026) By Michael Adams, Norman Holland & Shanti Chang|ISBN 9780138097042 A+

Pharmacology ForNurses APathophysiological
Approach 7thEdition Adams TestBank




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apter 1 Introduction to Pharmacology
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1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of pharmacology with a student nurse. Which
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student comment indicates an understanding?
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1. "Early researchers used themselves as test subjects."
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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."
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4. "Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the laboratory in the nineteenth ce
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ntury." Answer: 1
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Explanation:
1. Some early researchers, like Friedrich Serturner, used themselves as test subjects.
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2. An early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
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3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included morphine, colchicine, cur
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are, and cocaine, but not penicillin.
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4. By the twentieth century, pharmacologists could synthesize drugs in the labo
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ratory. Page Ref: 3
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Cognitive Level: Applying
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Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies Standards
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Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology.
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MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
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,2) A student nurse asks a nursing instructor why anatomy and physiology a
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s well as microbiology are required courses when the student only wants
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to learn about pharmacology. What is the best response by the instructo
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1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects." W W W W W W W




2. "You must learn all, since all of those subjects are part of the curriculum."
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3. "Knowledge of all those subjects will prepare you to administer medication." W W W W W W W W W W




4. "An understanding of those subjects is essential to understand pharmac
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Explanation:
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his is not the most essential reason for the nurse to learn them.
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2. The nurse must learn anatomy, physiology, and microbiology to und
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erstand pharmacology, not because they are part of the curriculum.
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2 Explain the interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology, giving an example of how kno
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wledge fro m different sciences impacts the nurse's role in drug administration.
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MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
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, 3) A nurse is teaching a group of nurses about the differences between pharmacology
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and th erapeutics. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when which sta
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Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select a
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ase." Answer: 2, 3, 5
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3 Compare and contrast therapeutics and pharmacology.
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MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the relationship between medicine and pharmacology.
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