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WGU D116 Unit 3 Questions with Correct
Answers 2023
A patient asks his provider to explain what drug tolerance means.
The provider responds by telling the patient that when tolerance occurs, it means the
patient __________. - ✔may need increased amounts of the drug over time

When tolerance develops, a dose increase may be needed because a decreased
response may occur with prolonged use

A group of nursing students asks a nurse to explain the blood-brain barrier.
The nurse would be correct to say that the blood-brain barrier __________. - ✔Prevents
some potentially toxic substances from crossing into the central nervous system

Infants are more sensitive to CNS drugs and require lower doses

Prevents highly ionized and protein-bound drugs from entering

Allows lipid-soluble drugs drugs and drugs that use specific transport systems to enter

A pregnant patient is in premature labor.
Which class of drug will she be given? - ✔Beta 2 agonist (helper)

Part of the peripheral adrenergic receptor subtypes (epi/norepi)

Beta2 agonists cause relaxation of the uterine muscles, slowing or stopping the
contractions that precipitate labor

*Beta2 ANTagonist would increase constriction of the uterine muscles*

What type of drug class has effects on the heart and arterioles? - ✔Alpha1 agonist

Anticcholinergic drugs are given for what effects? - ✔Urinary and GI tracts

They do not affect the urine muscles

A nurse is explaining the activation of beta-2 receptors to nursing students during a
clinical rotation at the hospital.
Which statement by a student demonstrates a need for further teaching? - ✔"Beta2
activation results in contraction of the uterine muscles"

*Beta2 activation DOES result in vasodilation of skeletal muscles, bronchodilation, and
glycogenolysis, and RELAXATION of uterine muscles*

,A provider is teaching a patient about a medication that alters the sympathetic nervous
system functions. To evaluate understanding, the provider asks the patient to describe
which functions the sympathetic nervous system regulates.
Which answer indicates the need for further teaching? - ✔"The digestive functions of the
body"

All apart of the sympathetic nervous system:
1. fight or flight
2. cardiovascular system
3. body temperature

A patient is experiencing toxic side effects from atropine, including delirium and
hallucinations.
Which medication will the provider ask the nurse to administer? - ✔Physostigmine
(Mestinon, Regonol)

Drug of choice for treating poisoning from atropine and other drugs that cause
muscarinic blockage ie: atropine (Muscarinic Antagonist)

What drug is used to treat Alzheimer's Disease? - ✔Donepezil

A patient who has myasthenia gravis will be taking neostigmine.
What should the nurse emphasize when teaching this patient about the medication? -
✔Take a supplementary dose before exercise

You have ordered pilocarpine. You understand that the drug stimulates muscarinic
receptors.
Which action would you expect the drug to have? - ✔Lowering of intraocular pressure in
pts with glaucoma

Also used to treat dry mouth because it increases salivary glands "Rest and digest"

Muscarinic agents are related to parasympathetic response

You are teaching a nursing student about the two classes of adrenergic agonist drugs.
Which statement by the nursing student indicates understanding of the teaching? -
✔Catecholamines often require continuous infusion to be effective

Catecholamines undergo rapid degradtion by monoamine oxidase MAO and COMT.
Brief duration of action and continuous IV to be effective

They DO NOT cross the BBB, noncatecholamines do

Noncatecholamines can be given orally but catehcholamines can not

, Because they cause vasoconstriction, alpha1-adrenergic agonists are especially useful
for __________. - ✔causing hemostasis in skin and mucous membranes

Example is epinephrine

These agents can increase BP but are not the primary drug used except in emergency
situations

A nursing student asks you why epinephrine, and no other adrenergic agonists, is used
to treat anaphylactic shock.
What will you tell the student? - ✔Epinephrine has the ability to activate multiple types
of adrenergic receptors

Beta 1 receptors increase CO and BP

Beta 2 receptors increase bronchodilation

Alpha 1 receptors causes vasoconstriction and increases HR and BP

Dopamine is administered to a patient who has been experiencing hypotensive
episodes.
Other than an increase in blood pressure, which indicator would the nurse use to
evaluate a successful response? - ✔Increase in urine output because of the increase in
cardiac output which was a result of the increase in BP

A patient is taking a beta-adrenergic antagonist medication for angina pectoris and asks
the nurse how the drug works to relieve the discomfort associated with this condition.
Which statement by the patient after the nurse's teaching indicates understanding of the
drug's effects? - ✔Helps reduce the heart's oxygen needs

Blocking beta 1 receptors in the heart reduces cardiac work by reducing HR, force of
contraction, and the velocity of impulse through the AV node

Beta blockers results in bronchoconstriction

CO decreased

A male patient is being treated for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and has stopped
taking his alpha-adrenergic antagonist medication because of ejaculatory difficulties.
Which medication should you prescribe? - ✔Alfuzosin

Does not interfere with ejaculation

What is true about phentolamine? - ✔Acts on both alpha 1 and alpha 2 receptors

Blocks both epi and norepi mediated vasoconstriction

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