NURS 400-ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+ 2025
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?
The State Board of Nursing for Each State
What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber?
APRN's care for patients more holistically and include patients in making decisions
regarding their care
What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?
Factoring in the cost of the particular
What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a disorder?
Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what?
NP's have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
,Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this important
for prescribers?
The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what?
they are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?
Lungs
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create storage reservoir
of the drug. What are storage reserviors>
Increased the length of time a drug is available and active
Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does the NP
know?
Half Life
Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those of the other
four day; This is considered a loading does. What is a loading dose?
Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
, The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a
therapeutic effect is the:
Onset of action
Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are peak and
trough levels are done
To determine if a d rug is in the therapeutic range
Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?
Concentrations will produce an adverse effect
Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include
Lipid solubility of the drug
Drugs that are receptors antagonists, such as beta-blockers, may cause what?
An exaggerated response if abrupt discontinues
Drug administration via IV:
1) need to be lipid soluble in order to absorb easily
2) Begin distribution in the body immediately
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+ 2025
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?
The State Board of Nursing for Each State
What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber?
APRN's care for patients more holistically and include patients in making decisions
regarding their care
What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?
Factoring in the cost of the particular
What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a disorder?
Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what?
NP's have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
,Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this important
for prescribers?
The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what?
they are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?
Lungs
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create storage reservoir
of the drug. What are storage reserviors>
Increased the length of time a drug is available and active
Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does the NP
know?
Half Life
Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those of the other
four day; This is considered a loading does. What is a loading dose?
Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
, The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a
therapeutic effect is the:
Onset of action
Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are peak and
trough levels are done
To determine if a d rug is in the therapeutic range
Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?
Concentrations will produce an adverse effect
Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include
Lipid solubility of the drug
Drugs that are receptors antagonists, such as beta-blockers, may cause what?
An exaggerated response if abrupt discontinues
Drug administration via IV:
1) need to be lipid soluble in order to absorb easily
2) Begin distribution in the body immediately
