PROPHECY RN PHARMACOLOGY A UPDATED EXAMS
SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Your patient is receiving vancomycin (Vancocin) 500mg IV every 12 hours. As a
nurse, you understand that the PRIMARY rationale for monitoring serum levels of
vancomycin is that: - ✔✔It can cause nephrotoxicity
✔✔Convert 1.2 milligrams to micrograms - ✔✔1200 mcg
✔✔You are caring for a patient with diabetes. Humalog insulin is ordered via sliding
scale AC and HS. When is the best time to administer Humalog insulin? - ✔✔15
minutes before meal arrives
✔✔A provider orders one liter of NS to be infused over four hours. At what rate would
you set the IV pump? - ✔✔250ml/hr
✔✔*WRONG* Which medication is used to treat iron toxicity? - ✔✔A) digoxin immune
fab (Digibind)
B) Naloxone (Narcan)
C) Mephyton (Vitamin K)
D) *WRONG* deferoxamine (Digibind)
✔✔Your patient presents with CHF and has a Potassium level of 5.8. Which diuretic do
you anticipate being ordered by the provider? - ✔✔bumetanide (Bumex)
✔✔Your patient is on a Morphine PCA after a recent exploratory surgery. While doing
your rounds, you notice that your patient is slumped over, unresponsive, with delayed
and slow respirations. You suspect narcotic overdose. Which reversal medication would
you administer? - ✔✔naloxone (Narcan)
✔✔A patient's capillary blood glucose reading is 33mg/dl. Which of the following
medications will the nurse administer if the patient is unable to tolerate PO? -
✔✔Dextrose 50% IV push
✔✔When a patient has pernicious anemia, the nurse would expect to give them: -
✔✔Vitamin B12
✔✔*WRONG* Which of the following anticoagulant is MOST commonly administered
for DVT prophylaxis in a patient who has undergone a hip replacement? -
✔✔A)*WRONG* heparin
B) enoxaparin
C) aspirin
D) warfarin
SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Your patient is receiving vancomycin (Vancocin) 500mg IV every 12 hours. As a
nurse, you understand that the PRIMARY rationale for monitoring serum levels of
vancomycin is that: - ✔✔It can cause nephrotoxicity
✔✔Convert 1.2 milligrams to micrograms - ✔✔1200 mcg
✔✔You are caring for a patient with diabetes. Humalog insulin is ordered via sliding
scale AC and HS. When is the best time to administer Humalog insulin? - ✔✔15
minutes before meal arrives
✔✔A provider orders one liter of NS to be infused over four hours. At what rate would
you set the IV pump? - ✔✔250ml/hr
✔✔*WRONG* Which medication is used to treat iron toxicity? - ✔✔A) digoxin immune
fab (Digibind)
B) Naloxone (Narcan)
C) Mephyton (Vitamin K)
D) *WRONG* deferoxamine (Digibind)
✔✔Your patient presents with CHF and has a Potassium level of 5.8. Which diuretic do
you anticipate being ordered by the provider? - ✔✔bumetanide (Bumex)
✔✔Your patient is on a Morphine PCA after a recent exploratory surgery. While doing
your rounds, you notice that your patient is slumped over, unresponsive, with delayed
and slow respirations. You suspect narcotic overdose. Which reversal medication would
you administer? - ✔✔naloxone (Narcan)
✔✔A patient's capillary blood glucose reading is 33mg/dl. Which of the following
medications will the nurse administer if the patient is unable to tolerate PO? -
✔✔Dextrose 50% IV push
✔✔When a patient has pernicious anemia, the nurse would expect to give them: -
✔✔Vitamin B12
✔✔*WRONG* Which of the following anticoagulant is MOST commonly administered
for DVT prophylaxis in a patient who has undergone a hip replacement? -
✔✔A)*WRONG* heparin
B) enoxaparin
C) aspirin
D) warfarin
