The document is a comprehensive BSN 215 Pharmacology study guide with updated 2024/2025 exam questions and answers, covering drug properties, administration, adverse reactions, nursing care, and treatment protocols.
BSN 215 Pharmacology week 5 EXAM LATEST
UPDATE 2024/2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
| 100% GRADED A+ (Nightingale College)
What are the properties of an ideal drug?
- Correct Answer- - Chemical stability
- Predictability
- Ease of administration
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?
- Correct Answer- Assessing the patient's pain level 15 to 30 minutes after giving
the medication
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 38.5C (101F).
- Correct Answer- Hold the next dose and notify the prescriber of the symptoms
A nurse is teaching nursing students about the use of nonproprietary names of
drugs. The nurse tells them which fact about nonproprietary names?
- Correct Answer- They are assigned by the U.S. Adopted Names Council
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?
- Correct Answer- To ensure that differences in outcomes are the results of
treatment and not differences in subjects
, A patient has had dilation of the eyes with an anticholinergic agent. What will the
nurse say when preparing this patient to go home after the examination?
- Correct Answer- "You may need to wear dark glasses until this medication wears
off."
The nurse is reviewing personal knowledge of the medications used in the
treatment of open-angle glaucoma.
- Correct Answer- - Alpha2 agonists
- Prostaglandin analogs
- Beta blockers
- Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
A nurse is teaching a patient diagnosed with wet ARMD who will begin receiving
bevacizumab [Avastin]. Which statement by the patient indicates a need for further
teaching?
- Correct Answer- "This medication will not reduce the risk of blindness."
An adolescent has recently been experiencing pimples. The nurse notes several
closed comedones across the patient's forehead and on the nose. The nurse will
expect to teach this patient about the use of which medication?
- Correct Answer- Benzoyl peroxide
A patient has severe acne that has been refractory to treatment. The patient is
taking tetracycline and using topical tretinoin [Retin-A] and has been applying
benzoyl peroxide twice daily. The provider asks the nurse to teach this patient
about isotretinoin [Accutane], which the patient will begin taking in a few weeks.
- Correct Answer- "Tetracycline must be discontinued before beginning the
isotretinoin."
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