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PHARMACOLOGY TEST 1 (ECPI) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PHARMACOLOGY TEST 1 (ECPI) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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PHARMACOLOGY TEST 1 (ECPI)QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How is medication administered buccally? - Answer-Cheek Pocket
What are the 5 rights of Medication Administration? - Answer-Right: Drug, dose, time,
route, patient
What is the nurses rationale for applying the nursing process in medication therapy? -
Answer-Ensures medication is administered safely and accurately.
How does the nurse evaluate the effectiveness of discharge teaching? - Answer-Have
the patient teach back
What are the components of a correct physicians order for medication? - Answer-PT
Name, Date, Drug Name, Drug Dose, Drug Amount, Drug Route, Drug Frequency &
prescribers signature
Your patient is on thiazide diuretic to treat heart failure. What are problems that the
client should be told to watch? - Answer-Electrolyte imbalance, rashes, fatigue, leg
cramps & dehydration
What is the age range for a neonate? - Answer-less than 1 month of age (newborn)
when administering medication to pediatric patients the nurse takes into account which
physiological criteria? - Answer-organs are immature
For the elderly, what are common responses to taking sedatives? - Answer-Confusion,
daytime sedation, ataxia, lethargy, increased risk for falls, lose balance
which two lab findings should the nurse be aware of in determining an elderly patients
ability to excrete medication? - Answer-BUN and liver absorption
When administering medication to a young child, the nurse should be aware that the
dosage is based primarily on what characteristic of the child? - Answer-weight
The immaturity of a 2 y/o gastrointestinal system will primarily influence what aspect of
pharmacokinetics? - Answer-absorption
when obtaining an informed consent from a patient, who is to receive an experimental
drug, the signing of the informed consent indicates what? - Answer-The procedure, the
purpose, the benefits & the risk
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