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1.A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a comp
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uterized axial tomography (CAT) scan. A nurse working on an oncology unit admi
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nisters chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public Health Departme
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nt, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14- month-
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old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describ
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es the actions of all three nurses?
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A) Pharmacoeconomics
B) Pharmacotherapeutics
C) Pharmacodynamics
D) Pharmacokinetics
ANSWER: B
Response:
Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with
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clinical pharmacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that
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deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease. The nurse working i
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n radiology is administering a drug to help diagnose a disease. The nurse working on an o
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ncology unit is administering a drug to help treat a disease. Pharmacoeconomics includ
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es any costs involved in drug therapy.
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Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug affects the body, and pharmacokinetics is how t qi qi qi qi qi qi qi qi qi qi q i qi
he body acts on the drug.
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2.A physician has ordered intramuscular injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours
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as needed for pain for a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware that there is a h
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igh abuse potential for this drug; therefore, morphine is categorized as a:
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