Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers Revised MOD 003 Test Bank 2023 VERIFIED 100%
Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is
... [Show More] regulated by who? correct answers The State Board of Nursing for Each State
What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber? correct answers APRN's care for patients more holistically and include patients in making decisions regarding their care
What does clinical judgement in prescribing include? correct answers Factoring in the cost of the particular
What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a disorder? correct answers Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what? correct answers NP's have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this important for prescribers? correct answers The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what? correct answers they are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be? correct answers Lungs
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create storage reservoir of the drug. What are storage reserviors> correct answers Increased the length of time a drug is available and active
Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does the NP know? correct answers Half Life
Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those of the other four day; This is considered a loading does. What is a loading dose? correct answers Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a therapeutic effect is the: correct answers Onset of action
Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are peak and trough levels are done correct answers To determine if a d rug is in the therapeutic range
Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property? correct answers Concentrations will produce an adverse effect
Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include correct answers Lipid solubility of the drug
Drugs that are receptors antagonists, such as beta-blockers, may cause what? correct answers An exaggerated response if abrupt discontinues
Drug administration via IV:
1) need to be lipid soluble in order to absorb easily
2) Begin distribution in the body immediately
3) Are easily absorbed if they are nonionized
4) May use pinocytosis to be absorbed correct answers Are easily absorbed if they are nonionized
What is the combination effect when a medication is added to a regimen for a synergistic effect? correct answers Greater than the sum of the effects of each drug individually
Which of the following statements about bioavailability is true?
1) Bioavailability issues are especially important for drugs with narrow therapeutic
ranges or sustained-release mechanisms.
2) brands of a drug have the same bioavailability.
3) Drugs that are administered more than once a day have greater bioavailability than
drugs given once daily.
4) Combining an active drug with an inert substance does not affect bioavailability. correct answers Bioavailability issues are especially important for drugs with narrow therapeutic
Which of the following statements about the major distribution barriers (blood-brain or fetal-placental) is true?
1) Water soluble and ionized drugs cross these barriers rapidly.
2) The blood-brain barrier slows the entry of many drugs into and from brain cells.
3) The fetal-placental barrier protects the fetus from drugs taken by the mother.
4) Lipid-soluble drugs do not pass these barriers and are safe for pregnant women correct answers The blood-brain barrier slows the entry of many drugs into and from brain cells.
What is the purpose of phase I and phase II of metabolism in the liver? correct answers Change drug molecules to a form that an excretory organ can excrete
What happens to the metabolites after they are metabolized in the liver? correct answers the metabolite may or may not be more active than the parent drug and they are totally deactivated so they are excreted without and effect; it depends on the medication being given
What causes the body to increased the excretion of a drug through the renal system correct answers Unbinding a nonvolatile drug from plasma proteins.
What is "steady state"? correct answers When the amount of the drug in the body remains constant
When two pain medications are given together to treat pain, what kind of drug-to-drug interaction occurs? correct answers Additive
Actions taken to reduce drug—drug interaction problems include all of the following EXCEPT:
1) Reducing the dosage of one of the drugs
2) Scheduling their administration at different times
3) Prescribing a third drug to counteract the adverse reaction of the combination
4) Reducing the dosage of both drugs correct answers Prescribing a third drug to counteract the adverse reaction of the combination [Show Less]