TEST BANK FOCUS ON NURSING PHARMACOLOGY (8TH EDITION BY KARCH) CHAPTERS 01-59
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TEST BANK FOCUS ON NURSING PHARMACOLOGY
(8TH EDITION BY KARCH)
CHAPTERS 01-59
LATEST UPDATE 2024
Contents
Chapter 01 - Introduction to Drugs 4
Chapter 02 - Drugs and the Body 23
Chapter 03 - Toxic Effects of Drugs 42
Chapter 04 - The Nursing Process in Drug Therapy and Patient Safety ...
, Test Bank - Focus on Nursing Pharmacology (8th Edition by Karch)
1. A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed
tomography(CT) scan. The nurse working on the oncology unit administers
chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public Health Department, a nurse
administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month-old child as a
routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actions of all
three nurses?
a. Pharmacoeconomics
b. Pharmacotherapeutics
c. Pharmacodynamics
d. Pharmacokinetics
Ans: B
Feedback:
Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved
with clinical pharmacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of
pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease.
The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help diagnose a disease. The oncology
nurse is administering a drug to help treat a disease.
Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics
involves how a drug affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on
the body.
2. A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4
hours as neededfor pain in a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this drug
has a high abuse potential. Under what category would morphine be classified?
a. Schedule I
b. Schedule II
c. Schedule III
d. Schedule IV
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