NURS 6521 (Advanced
Pharmacology) MIDTERM EXAM
SET 2&3 COMPLETE LATEST
UPDATED RATED A WALDEN
UNIVERSITY.
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A patient has been prescribed lithium therapy. Which of the following signs and symptoms
will the nurse tell the patient to report immediately?
Answer: Muscle twitching
The lower respiratory system utilizes a number of different mechanisms that confer protection
and maintain homeostasis. Which of the following physiological processes protects the lower
respiratory system?
Cilia sweep foreign material and mucus upward toward the trachea and larynx
Answer: where they can then be swallowed.
A female patient, age 36, is prescribed inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) for daily use. Which of
the following adverse effects should the nurse closely monitor for in this patient?
Answer: Oropharyngeal Candida albicans infection
A nurse practitioner understands when prescribing a medication that there are certain
s to address. Check all that apply.
Answers: Is there a need for the drug in treating the presenting problem?
Is this the best drug for the presenting
problem?Can the patient take the prescribed
drug?
A teenage boy has undergone a diagnostic workup following several months of persistent,
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bloody diarrhea that appears to lack an infectious etiology. The boy has also experienced
intermittent abdominal pain and has lost almost 15 pounds this year. Which of the following
medications is most likely to treat this boy's diagnosis?
Answer: Mesalamine
A nurse working for a drug company is involved in phase III drug evaluation studies. Which
of the following might the nurse be responsible for during this stage of drug development?
Answer: Administering investigational drugs to patients
A 65-year-old woman has an advanced form of rheumatoid arthritis. Her treatment includes a
regular dosage of methotrexate. The nurse will advise her to take which of the following
vitamin supplements while taking the drug?
Answer: Vitamin B
An unconscious patient has been brought to the hospital, and the physician has prescribed a
life-saving drug to be administered parenterally. Which of the following methods would be
the most appropriate for the nurse to use when administering the medication?
Answer: Intravenous infusion.
A male patient is to begin glyburide (Diabeta) for type 2 diabetes. Before the drug therapy
begins, a priority action by the nurse will be to assess the patient's
Answer: use of alcohol.
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