Chapter 2. Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology
1. Question: Apatient’snutritionalintakeandlaboratoryresultsreflecthypoalbuminemia.Thisis critical to prescribing because:
2. Question: Drugs that have a significant first-passeffect:
3. Question: Medroxy progesterone (Depo Provera) is pr...
Chapter 2. Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology
1. A patient’s nutritional intake and laboratory results reflect hypoalbuminemia. This
is critical to prescribing because:
Distribution of drugs to target tissue may be affected.
2. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect:
Are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
3.The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be the:
Lungs
4. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed intramuscularly (IM) to create a
storage reservoir
Increase the length of time a drug is available and active
5. The NP chooses to give cephalexin every 8 hours based on knowledge of the
drug’s: Biological half-life
6. Azithromycin dosing requires that the first day’s dosage be twice those of the other 4 days
of the prescription. This is considered a loading dose. A loading dose:
Rapidly achieves drug levels in the therapeutic range
7. The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a
therapeutic effect is the:
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