Pharmacology PaxPat Exam Questions
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Licensed pharmacists work only in labs, and not with people - Answers -✔✔ False
Outpatient health delivery is called: - Answers -✔✔ Ambulatory care
Which isn't a pharmacist's responsibility - Answers -✔✔ taking x-rays of a broken hip
One of the jobs of a pharmacist is to hep people learn how to take prescription
medications at the right time and at the right dose - Answers -✔✔ True
In pharmacy school, a "rotation" means - Answers -✔✔ working at different professional
locations
An acute care pharmacy setting is - Answers -✔✔ in a hospital
What is true about taking medication - Answers -✔✔ it is common for people who have
several diseases to take many medications
Diabetes is a simple disease to treat, and requires very little attention and care from the
patient - Answers -✔✔ false
A diabetic tests his blood - Answers -✔✔ by pricking his finger and squeezing a drop of
blood on to a special test strip
An allergic reaction to a medication will always happen immediately once the
medication is ingested - Answers -✔✔ False
If a patient on antibiotics begins to feel better, but still has several days of medication
left, he should - Answers -✔✔ continue taking the medication for as long as it is
prescribed
Anaphylaxis is - Answers -✔✔ a severe allergic reaction
antibiotics - Answers -✔✔ are used to fight bacterial infections
an allergic reaction occurs because - Answers -✔✔ the patient's immune system thinks
the drug is dangerous
, anaphylaxis symptoms and response - Answers -✔✔ drops blood pressure and
breathing, weakens pulse, nausea (caused by food insect bites, latex contact), alert
school, work place, family and friends, alert bracelet
if a patient is allergic to a medication, they will have a reaction immediately - Answers -
✔✔ false (3rd time because at first immune system doesn't recognize)
Compounding - Answers -✔✔ changing medicine form into another without losing
potency/efficacy
Triturate - Answers -✔✔ Grind up (tablet) into powder in mortar and pestle
Levigation - Answers -✔✔ taking wetting agent to grind powder size even smaller into
paste
What must be poured into a graduate container and then mixed with water for a syrup
vehicle - Answers -✔✔ concentrated syrup
What does 50/50 mean - Answers -✔✔ equal amount of syrup and water
Food coloring - Answers -✔✔ color for appearance, helps with syrup to make
medication sweet and appeal to patient
Final steps - Answers -✔✔ pour syrup and vehicle into bottle, shake before using, label
active ingredient, how much inside, date, initials
Drugs that are first available by prescription can be approved for over-the-counter sales
when: - Answers -✔✔ They are shown to be very safe
If a drug was formerly only available by prescription and is now available over-the-
counter, it is likely: - Answers -✔✔ The drug has been tested and used successfully and
safely by millions
When the digestive acid flows up from the stomach and inflames the esophagus: -
Answers -✔✔ It is called acid reflux, or heartburn
Over-the-counter medications are weaker than prescription medications. - Answers -✔✔
False
medication with narrow therapeutic index (required dosage is same as lethal dose) -
Answers -✔✔ warfarin
drug information sheet for patient must be - Answers -✔✔ included with prescription
With All Correct Answers A+ Pass
Licensed pharmacists work only in labs, and not with people - Answers -✔✔ False
Outpatient health delivery is called: - Answers -✔✔ Ambulatory care
Which isn't a pharmacist's responsibility - Answers -✔✔ taking x-rays of a broken hip
One of the jobs of a pharmacist is to hep people learn how to take prescription
medications at the right time and at the right dose - Answers -✔✔ True
In pharmacy school, a "rotation" means - Answers -✔✔ working at different professional
locations
An acute care pharmacy setting is - Answers -✔✔ in a hospital
What is true about taking medication - Answers -✔✔ it is common for people who have
several diseases to take many medications
Diabetes is a simple disease to treat, and requires very little attention and care from the
patient - Answers -✔✔ false
A diabetic tests his blood - Answers -✔✔ by pricking his finger and squeezing a drop of
blood on to a special test strip
An allergic reaction to a medication will always happen immediately once the
medication is ingested - Answers -✔✔ False
If a patient on antibiotics begins to feel better, but still has several days of medication
left, he should - Answers -✔✔ continue taking the medication for as long as it is
prescribed
Anaphylaxis is - Answers -✔✔ a severe allergic reaction
antibiotics - Answers -✔✔ are used to fight bacterial infections
an allergic reaction occurs because - Answers -✔✔ the patient's immune system thinks
the drug is dangerous
, anaphylaxis symptoms and response - Answers -✔✔ drops blood pressure and
breathing, weakens pulse, nausea (caused by food insect bites, latex contact), alert
school, work place, family and friends, alert bracelet
if a patient is allergic to a medication, they will have a reaction immediately - Answers -
✔✔ false (3rd time because at first immune system doesn't recognize)
Compounding - Answers -✔✔ changing medicine form into another without losing
potency/efficacy
Triturate - Answers -✔✔ Grind up (tablet) into powder in mortar and pestle
Levigation - Answers -✔✔ taking wetting agent to grind powder size even smaller into
paste
What must be poured into a graduate container and then mixed with water for a syrup
vehicle - Answers -✔✔ concentrated syrup
What does 50/50 mean - Answers -✔✔ equal amount of syrup and water
Food coloring - Answers -✔✔ color for appearance, helps with syrup to make
medication sweet and appeal to patient
Final steps - Answers -✔✔ pour syrup and vehicle into bottle, shake before using, label
active ingredient, how much inside, date, initials
Drugs that are first available by prescription can be approved for over-the-counter sales
when: - Answers -✔✔ They are shown to be very safe
If a drug was formerly only available by prescription and is now available over-the-
counter, it is likely: - Answers -✔✔ The drug has been tested and used successfully and
safely by millions
When the digestive acid flows up from the stomach and inflames the esophagus: -
Answers -✔✔ It is called acid reflux, or heartburn
Over-the-counter medications are weaker than prescription medications. - Answers -✔✔
False
medication with narrow therapeutic index (required dosage is same as lethal dose) -
Answers -✔✔ warfarin
drug information sheet for patient must be - Answers -✔✔ included with prescription
