by Rebecca Tucker All Chapter 1-56 Complete
, Chapter 1: Introduction to Drugs K7 K7 K7 K7
Format: Multiple Choice Chapter:
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Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and ParenteralTh
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erapies
Cognitive Level: Analyze Difficult
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y: Moderate
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Integrated Process: Nursing Process Objective: 1
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Page and Header: 3, Introduction
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A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed tomography
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(CT)scan. The nurse working on the oncology unit administers chemotherapy to patients w
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ho have cancer. At the Public Health Department, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-
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rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month- K7 K7 K7 K7 K7
old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actio
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ns of all three nurses?
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Pharmacoeconomics K7
Pharmacotherapeuti K 7
cs Pharmacodynamic
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s Pharmacokinetics
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Ans: B
Feedback:
Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with clinical ph
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armacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses
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ofdrugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease. The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help
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diagnose a disease. The oncology nurse is administering a drug to help treat a disease.
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Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how K7 K7 K7 K7 K7 K7 K7 K7 K7 K 7 K7
adrug affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on the body.
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A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as n
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eeded forpain in a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this drug has a high ab
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Under what category would morphine be classified?
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Schedule I K7
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Schedule III K7 K
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Narcotics with a high abuse potential are classified as Schedule II drugs because of severe dependence lia
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bility. Schedule I drugs have high abuse potential and no accepted medical use. Schedule III
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drugs have a lesser abuse potential than II and an accepted medical use. Schedule IV drug
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s have low abusepotential and limited dependence liability.
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When involved in phase III drug evaluation studies, what responsibilities would the nurse
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g with animals who are given experimental drugs
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Choosing appropriate patients to be involved in the drug study
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Monitoring and observing patients closely for adverse effects Con
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ducting research to determine effectiveness of the drug Ans: C
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Feedback:
Phase III studies involve use of a drug in a vast clinical population in which patients are asked to
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recordany symptoms they experience while taking the drugs. Nurses may be responsible for helpi
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ng collect and analyze the information to be shared with the Food and Drug Administration (FD
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A) but would not conduct research independently because nurses do not prescribe medications.
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Use of animals in drug testing is done in the preclinical trials. Select patients who are involved in
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phase II studies to participatein studies where the participants have the disease the drug is inten
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ded to treat. These patients are monitored closely for drug action and adverse effects. Phase I stud
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ies involve healthy human volunteerswho are usually paid for their participation. Nurses may obse
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rve for adverse effects and toxicity.
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What concept is considered when generic drugs are substituted for brand name drugs?Bioavailabi
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lity
Critical concentratio
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life Ans: K 7 A
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Bioavailability is the portion of a dose of a drug that reaches the systemic circulation and is availa
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ble to act on body cells. Binders used in a generic drug may not be the same as those used in the
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brand name drug. Therefore, the way the body breaks down and uses the drug may differ, which
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may eliminate a generic drug substitution. Critical concentration is the amount of a drug that is
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needed to cause a therapeutic effect and should not differ between generic and brand name medi
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cations. Distribution is the phase of pharmacokinetics, which involves the movement of a drug to
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the body’s tissues and is the
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same in generic and brand name drugs. A drug’s half-
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life is the time it takes for the amount of drug todecrease to half the peak level, which should not
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change when substituting a generic medication.
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A nurse is assessing the patient’s home medication use. After listening to the patient list current medicat
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ions, the nurse asks what priority question?
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Do you take any generic medications?
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Are any of these medications orphan drugs? Are
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these medications safe to take during pregnan
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cy?Do you take any over-the-
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counter medications? K 7
Ans: D
Feedback:
It is important for the nurse to specifically question use of over-the-
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counter medications because patients may not consider them important. The patient is unlikely to
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know the meaning of orphan drugsunless they too are health care providers. Safety during pregn
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ancy, use of a generic medication, or classification of orphan drugs are things the patient would b
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e unable to answer but could be found in reference books if the nurse wishes to research them.
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After completing a course on pharmacology for nurses, what will the nurse know?Ev
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erything necessary for safe and effective medication administration Current pharmaco
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logic therapy; the nurse will not require ongoing education for 5
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