PHARMACOLOGY CHAPTER 2: NCLEX
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE
1. To achieve the most rapid onset of action, the health care provider will
prescribe the medication to be administered by which route?
a. Subcutaneously
b. Intravenously
c. Intramuscularly
d. Intrathecally --CORRECT ANSWER--b. Intravenously
2. Patients with renal failure would most likely have problems with drug
a. excretion.
b. absorption.
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, c. metabolism.
d. distribution. --CORRECT ANSWER--a. excretion.
3. What is the ratio between a drug's therapeutic effects and toxic effects called?
a. Tolerance
b. Cumulative effect
c. Therapeutic index
d. Affinity --CORRECT ANSWER--c. Therapeutic index
4. When a patient asks the nurse why a lower dose of intravenous pain
medication is being given than the previous oral dose, what knowledge will the
nurse draw on to respond to the patient?
a. Medications given intravenously are not affected by the first-pass effect.
b. Medications given orally bypass the portal circulatory system.
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QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE
1. To achieve the most rapid onset of action, the health care provider will
prescribe the medication to be administered by which route?
a. Subcutaneously
b. Intravenously
c. Intramuscularly
d. Intrathecally --CORRECT ANSWER--b. Intravenously
2. Patients with renal failure would most likely have problems with drug
a. excretion.
b. absorption.
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, c. metabolism.
d. distribution. --CORRECT ANSWER--a. excretion.
3. What is the ratio between a drug's therapeutic effects and toxic effects called?
a. Tolerance
b. Cumulative effect
c. Therapeutic index
d. Affinity --CORRECT ANSWER--c. Therapeutic index
4. When a patient asks the nurse why a lower dose of intravenous pain
medication is being given than the previous oral dose, what knowledge will the
nurse draw on to respond to the patient?
a. Medications given intravenously are not affected by the first-pass effect.
b. Medications given orally bypass the portal circulatory system.
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