PHARMACOLOGY 8TH EDITION 2025/2026 COMPLETE & VERIFIED TEST BANK (ALL SOLVED
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Chapter 01: Orientation to Pharmacology
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The nurse is teaching a patient how a medication works to treat an illness. To do this, the nurse will rely on knowledge of
which topic?
a. Clinical pharmacology
b. Drug efficacy
c. Pharmacokinetics
d. Pharmacotherapeutics
ANS: D
2. What is a desired outcome when a drug is described as easy to administer?
a. It can be stored indefinitely without need for refrigeration.
b. It does not interact significantly with other medications.
c. It enhances patient adherence to the drug regimen.
d. It is usually relatively inexpensive to produce.
ANS: C
3. A patient tells the nurse that an analgesic he will begin taking may cause drowsiness and will decrease pain up to 4 hours at a
time. Based on this understanding of the drug’s effects by the patient, the nurse will anticipate which outcome?
a. Decreased chance of having a placebo effect
b. Decreased motivation to take the drug
c. Improved compliance with the drug regimen
d. Increased likelihood of drug overdose
ANS: C
Chapter 02: Application of Pharmacology in Nursing Practice
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.A patient is using a metered-dose inhaler containing albuterol for asthma. The medication label instructs the patient to administer “2
puffs every 4 hours as needed for coughing or wheezing.” The patient reports feeling jittery sometimes when taking the medication,
and she doesn’t feel that the medication is always effective. Which action is outside the nurse’s scope of practice?
a. Asking the patient to demonstrate use of the inhaler
b. Assessing the patient’s exposure to tobacco smoke
c. Auscultating lung sounds and obtaining vital signs
d. Suggesting that the patient use one puff to reduce side effects
ANS: D
2. A postoperative patient is being discharged home with acetaminophen/hydrocodone [Lortab] for pain. The patient asks the
nurse about using Tylenol for fever. Which statement by the nurse is correct?
a. “It is not safe to take over-the-counter drugs with prescription medications.”
b. “Taking the two medications together poses a risk of drug toxicity.”
c. “There are no known drug interactions, so this will be safe.”
d. “Tylenol and Lortab are different drugs, so there is no risk of overdose.”
ANS: B
3. The nurse is preparing to care for a patient who will be taking an antihypertensive medication. Which action by the nurse is
part of the assessment step of the nursing process?
a. Asking the prescriber for an order to monitor serum drug levels
b. Monitoring the patient for drug interactions after giving the medication
c. Questioning the patient about over-the-counter medications
d. Taking the patient’s blood pressure throughout the course of treatment
ANS: C
4. A postoperative patient reports pain, which the patient rates as an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the most extreme pain).
The prescriber has ordered acetaminophen [Tylenol] 650 mg PO every 6 hours PRN pain. What will the nurse do?
a. Ask the patient what medications have helped with pain in the past.
, b. Contact the provider to request a different analgesic medication.
c. Give the pain medication and reposition the patient to promote comfort.
d. Request an order to administer the medication every 4 hours.
ANS: B
5. A patient newly diagnosed with diabetes is to be discharged from the hospital. The nurse teaching this patient about home
management should begin by doing what?
a. Asking the patient to demonstrate how to measure and administer insulin
b. Discussing methods of storing insulin and discarding syringes
c. Giving information about how diet and exercise affect insulin requirements
d. Teaching the patient about the long-term consequences of poor diabetes control
ANS: A
6. The nurse receives an order to give morphine 5 mg IV every 2 hours PRN pain. Which action is not part of the six rights of
drug administration?
a. Assessing the patient’s pain level 15 to 30 minutes after giving the medication
b. Checking the medication administration record to see when the last dose was administered
c. Consulting a drug manual to determine whether the amount the prescriber ordered is appropriate
d. Documenting the reason the medication was given in the patient’s electronic medical record
ANS: A
7. A patient tells a nurse that a medication prescribed for recurrent migraine headaches is not working. What will the nurse do?
a. Ask the patient about the number and frequency of tablets taken.
b. Assess the patient’s headache pain on a scale from 1 to 10.
c. Report the patient’s complaint to the prescriber.
d. Suggest biofeedback as an adjunct to drug therapy.
ANS: A
8. A nurse is preparing to administer medications. Which patient would the nurse consider to have the greatest predisposition to
an adverse reaction?
a. A 30-year-old man with kidney disease
b. A 75-year-old woman with cystitis
c. A 50-year-old man with an upper respiratory tract infection
d. A 9-year-old boy with an ear infection
ANS: A
9. A nurse consults a drug manual before giving a medication to an 80-year-old patient. The manual states that older-adult
patients are at increased risk for hepatic side effects. Which action by the nurse is correct?
a. Contact the provider to discuss an order for pretreatment laboratory work.
b. Ensure that the drug is given in the correct dose at the correct time to minimize the risk of adverse effects.
c. Notify the provider that this drug is contraindicated for this patient.
d. Request an order to give the medication intravenously so that the drug does not pass through the liver.
ANS: A
10. A patient has been receiving intravenous penicillin for pneumonia for several days and begins to complain of generalized
itching. The nurse auscultates bilateral wheezing and notes a temperature of 38.5°C (101°F). Which is the correct action by
the nurse?
a. Administer the next dose and continue to evaluate the patient’s symptoms.
b. Ask the prescriber if an antihistamine can be given to relieve the itching.
c. Contact the prescriber to request an order for a chest radiograph.
d. Hold the next dose and notify the prescriber of the symptoms.
ANS: D
11. A postoperative patient has orders for morphine sulfate 1 to 2 mg IV every 1 hour PRN for severe pain and acetaminophen-
hydrocodone [Lortab] 7.5 mg PO every 4 to 6 hours PRN for moderate pain. The patient reports pain at a level of 8 on a scale
of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst pain. Which action by the nurse is appropriate?
a. Administer acetaminophen-hydrocodone 7.5 mg PO every 4 hours.
b. Administer acetaminophen-hydrocodone 7.5 mg PO every 6 hours and change to every 4 hours if not effective.
c. Administer morphine sulfate 1 mg IV every 1 hour until pain subsides.
, d. Administer morphine sulfate 2 mg IV and evaluate the patient’s pain in 15 to 30 minutes.
ANS: D
12. The nurse is teaching a patient about home administration of insulin to treat diabetes mellitus. As part of the teaching, the
patient and nurse identify goals to maintain specific blood glucose ranges. This represents which aspect of the nursing
process?
a. Assessment
b. Evaluation
c. Implementation
d. Planning
ANS: D
Chapter 03: Drug Regulation, Development, Names, and Information
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse educator is conducting a continuing education class on pharmacology. To evaluate the
learning of the nurses in the class, the nurse educator asks, “Which drug name gives information
about the drug’s pharmacologic classification?” Which is the correct response?
a. Amoxicillin
b. Tylenol
c. Cipro
d. Motrin
ANS: A
2. The FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) was passed in 2007 to address which aspect of drug safety?
a. Allowing pharmaceutical companies to iden-
tify off-label uses of medications approved
for other uses
b. Evaluating drug safety information that
emerges after a drug has been approved and
is in use
c. Expediting the approval process of the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) so that
needed drugs can get to market more
quickly
d. Requiring manufacturers to notify patients
before removing a drug from the market
ANS: B
3. A nursing student asks a nurse about pharmaceutical research and wants to know the purpose of
randomization in drug trials. The nurse explains that randomization is used to do what?
a. To ensure that differences in outcomes are
the result of treatment and not differences in
subjects
b. To compare the outcome caused by the
treatment to the outcome caused by no
treatment
c. To make sure that researchers are unaware
of which subjects are in which group
d. To prevent subjects from knowing which
group they are in and prevent preconception
bias
ANS: A
4. Someone asks a nurse about a new drug that is in preclinical testing and wants to know why it can-
, not be used to treat a friend’s illness. Which statement by the nurse is correct?
a. “A drug at this stage of development can be
used only in patients with serious disease.”
b. “At this stage of drug development, the
safety and usefulness of the medication is
unknown.”
c. “Clinical trials must be completed to make
sure the drug is safe to use in humans.”
d. “Until postmarketing surveillance data are
available, the drug cannot be used.”
ANS: B
5. A patient asks a nurse why drugs that have been approved by the FDA still have unknown side ef-
fects. What will the nurse tell the patient?
a. Testing for all side effects of a medication
would be prohibitively expensive.
b. Patients in drug trials often are biased by
their preconceptions of a drug’s benefits.
c. Researchers tend to conduct studies that will
prove the benefits of their new drugs.
d. Subjects in drug trials do not always repre-
sent the full spectrum of possible patients.
ANS: D
6. A nurse is teaching nursing students about the use of nonproprietary names for drugs. The nurse
tells them which fact about nonproprietary names?
a. They are approved by the FDA and are easy
to remember.
b. They are assigned by the U.S. Adopted
Names Council.
c. They clearly identify the drug’s pharmaco-
logic classification.
d. They imply the efficacy of the drug and are
less complex.
ANS: B
Chapter 04: Pharmacokinetics
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.A patient tells the nurse that the oral drug that has been prescribed has caused a lot of stomach
discomfort in the past. What will the nurse ask the prescriber?
a. Whether a sublingual form of the medication
can be given
b. Whether the medication can be given by a
parenteral route instead
c. Whether an enteric-coated form of the drug
is available
d. Whether the patient can receive a sustained-
release preparation of the drug
ANS: C
2.A patient claims to get better effects with a tablet of Brand X of a drug than with a tablet of Brand Y
of the same drug. Both brands contain the same amount of the active ingredient. What does the
nurse know to be most likely?
a. Advertising by pharmaceutical companies
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