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NURSING PHARMACOLOGY ALL REVISION QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (GRADED 100%) (2024 UPDATE)
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NURSING PHARMACOLOGY ALL REVISIONQUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (GRADED
100%) (2024 UPDATE)
Muscle spasm: stimulation of skeletal muscle (due to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor stimulation)
- ANSWER- Cholinergic crisis
open bronchial
Anticholinergic not good with glaucoma - ANSWER- Atropine raises heart rate
What is Mydriasis?
(Pupil Dilation)
Sympathetic agonists and Anticholinergics - ANSWER- A nurse should teach a patient with
narrow angle glaucoma to avoid medications that have this physiologic effect.
What is a non-selective
Beta Adrenergic Antagonist?
(Non-selective Beta Blocker)
Blocks both Beta 1 & Beta 2 receptors - ANSWER- Propranolol
What is HIV and Cancer? - ANSWER- The 1997 FDA Modernization Act was passed to allow
accelerated of approval of medication specifically for these two conditions
What is an Indirect
Parasympathetic Agonist? - ANSWER- Acetyl cholinesterase
Inhibitor
What is an
Enzyme Inducer? - ANSWER- Alcohol or Cigarette smoking as well as other medications can
speed up metabolism of medication also known as this.
What is Paradoxical ? - ANSWER- This is a reaction that happens when the opposite effect of
the intended effect occurs.
What is Asthma or Diabetes ? - ANSWER- A nurse administering a nonspecific beta adrenergic
antagonist should question the prescription if the patient has one of the TWO conditions
,HIPAA - ANSWER- This Act requires the nurse to protect the privacy of individually
identifiable health information
What is a
Parasympathetic Agonist? - ANSWER- Cholinergic.
What are supplements and herbals? - ANSWER- These substances are not regulated by the
FDA but could react with many medications and should be mentioned to the patient's primary
prescriber
Sugarless candy & ice chips for dry mouth
Fiber, Fluid and exercise for constipation
Monitor urinary output for retention? - ANSWER- The Nurse should teach a client taking an
anticholinergic these interventions to deal with the side effects.
What is fat soluble ? - ANSWER- This characteristic of a medicine allows it to cross barriers
such as the Placental or Blood brain
What is the intravenous route? - ANSWER- This is the medication administration route that
bypasses absorption and the hepatic first pass effect resulting in the highest bioavailability of a
drug
- ANSWER- What is Mydriasis?
(Pupil Dilation)
Sympathetic agonists and Anticholinergics
What is Acetyl cholinesterase ?
(reduces inactivation of acetyl - ANSWER- A nurse caring for a patient with Myasthenia Gravis
would administer an indirect cholinergic agonist to inactivate this substance.
What is Orthostatic Hypotension?
Commonly caused by sympathetic antagonists - ANSWER- The nurse should teach a patient
with this potential condition to change positions slowly
from lying to sitting to standing.
What is the individual State ? - ANSWER- This is the agency that defines the Nursing Scope
of Practice with the Nurse Practice Acts.
Name that is registered by the manufacturer and is followed by the trademark symbol; the name
can be used only by the manufacturer; a drug may have several trade names; depending on the
number of manufacturers; the first letter of the trade name is capitalized - ANSWER- trade
name/brand name
, Method for organizing drugs on the basis of their mechanism of action. - ANSWER-
Pharmacologic classification
warning that has recommended advice contraindications harmful extreme adverse effect warning
- ANSWER- Black Box Label
a drug will prove effective for a disease that differs from the one involved in original testing and
FDA approval - ANSWER- off-label use
Study of effect of ethnicity on drug uses and responses - ANSWER- ethno-pharmacology
study of the genetic basis for variability in drug response among individuals - ANSWER-
Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics
decrease heart rate and dilate arteries by blocking beta receptors - ANSWER- Beta Blockers
predominant receptor found on the heart
^HR - ANSWER- Beta 1 receptors
Its ability to increase heart rate makes it useful as adjunct therapy for acute heart failure and
hypovolemia or septic shock - ANSWER- beta 1 agonist
effective, safe, selective - ANSWER- Ideal drug
Pharmaceutical(tab, disintegration, dissolution)
Pharmacokinetics(What the body does to a drug)
Absorption, distribution,metabolism, excretion.
Pharmacodynamics
Therapeutics. - ANSWER- Three phases of drug activity
1. oral disintegration, buccal tablets, & oral soluble wafers
2. liquids, elixirs & syrups
3. suspension solutions
4. powders
5. capsules
6. tablets
7. coated tablets
8. enteric-coated tablets - ANSWER- Drug absorption fastest to slowest
entrance of a drug into the bloodstream from its site of administration
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