Test Bank - Karch Focus on Nursing Pharmacology 9th Edition by Rebecca Tucker
Chapters 1 - 59
Test Bank - Karch Focus on Nursing Pharmacology 9th Edition by Rebecca Tucker
Chapters 1 - 59
Test Bank - Karch Focus on Nursing Pharmacology 9th Edition by Rebecca Tucker
Chapters 1 - 59
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IIll Moderate
Integrated Process: IIll I I l l Nursing process IIll
1.A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a
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IIll computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. A nurse working on an oncology IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll
IIll unit administers chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public
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IIll Health Department, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)
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IIll vaccine to a 14-month-old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of
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IIll pharmacology best describes the actions of all three nurses? IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll
A) Pharmacoeconomics
B) Pharmacotherapeutics
C) Pharmacodynamics
D) Pharmacokinetics
ANSWER: B
Response:
Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll
IIll involved with clinical pharmacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch
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IIll of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent, and
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IIll diagnose disease. The nurse working in radiology is administering a drug to help
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IIll diagnose a disease. The nurse working on an oncology unit is administering a drug
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IIll to help treat adisease. Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug
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therapy.
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Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug affects the body, and pharmacokinetics IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll
ishow the body acts on the drug.
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Cognitive Level: IIll
IIll ComprehensionDifficulty: Easy Il IIll
Integrated Process: IIll I I l l Nursing process IIll
2.A physician has ordered intramuscular injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4
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