NUR651 FINAL BRADLEY UNIVERSITY EXAM
1. Which of the types of chemical bonding between
drugs and their receptors is the least common?
2. Which type of drug classification is most important
to the practitioner?
Covalent
Therapeutic
3. Mechanism of Action The manner in
which molecular tar-
g...
NUR651 FINAL BRADLEY UNIVERSITY EXAM
1. Which of the types of chemical bonding between Covalent
drugs and their receptors is the least common?
2. Which type of drug classification is most important Therapeutic
to the practitioner?
3. Mechanism of Action The manner in
which molecular tar-
gets are affected by
the drug
4. Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) can lead the patient stop taking the drug
to
5. Half-life is defined as The time required for
the plasma concen-
tration of a drug to be
reduced by 50 per-
cent
6. When one drug is more efficacious than another, it A greater ability to
has... initiate a response
7. What is bioavailability? The fraction of un-
changed drug that
reaches the sys-
temic circulation fol-
lowing administra-
tion by any route
8. Absorption is defined as: The transfer of a
drug from its site of
administration to the
blood
9. How can Competitive antagonism be overcome? by adding more ago-
nist
10. How is children's dosing most often calculated? MG/KG
, NUR651 FINAL BRADLEY UNIVERSITY EXAM
11. A patient complains of pain from a migraine. How Central Neuropathic
would the practitioner classify this type of pain? Pain
12. What stage of nociception is occurring when neu- Trasmission
rotransmitters in the dorsal horn directly or indi-
rectly depolarize the second-order neurons?
13. What are the four processes of Nociception transduction, trans-
mission, modulation,
and perception
14. A practitioner conducting a pain assessment asks Temporal pattern
the patient, "Is the pain consistent or intermittent?"
What character of pain is the practitioner assess-
ing?
15. What is the maximum dose of acetaminophen in 24 4 grams
hours?
16. Etodolac is in the same drug class as ibuprofen. It inhibits the cy-
What is its mechanism of action? clooxygenase en-
zyme.
17. What kind of drug is Naloxone (Narcan) opioid antagonist
18. Acetaminophen and alcohol have a complex rela- 1. They are both
tionship in the liver. Why? (3 reasons) metabolized by the
same liver enzyme.
2. Alcohol inhibits
the enzyme that
metabolizes aceta-
minophen.
3. The enzyme that
metabolizes aceta-
minophen is induced
by alcohol.
19. What is a contraindication of ibuprofen? Ulcers
20. An adverse effect of opiates in elders is... Bone fractures
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