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, CH 01: Orientation to Pharmacology
Burchum: Lehne’s Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 12TH Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The nursing attendant is teaching a hospital client how a drugs works to treat an illness. To
dothis, the nursing attendantwill rely on knowledge of which topic?
a. Clinical pharmacology
b. Drugs efficacy
c. Pharmacokinetics
d. Pharmacotherapeutics
ACCURATE ANSWER:- D
Reasoning :->>>> Pharmacotherapeutics is the study of the use of drugs to diagnose, treat,
and prevent conditions.Clinical pharmacology is concerned with all aspects of drugs-human
interactions. Drugs efficacy measures the extent to which a given drugs causes anintended
effect. Pharmacokinetics is the study of the impact of the body on a drugs.
POINTS: 1
2. What is a desired outcome when a drugs is described as easy to administer?
a. It can be stored indefinitely without need for refrigeration.
b. It does not interact significantly with other drugs.
c. It enhances hospital client adherence to the drugs regimen.
d. It is usually relatively inexpensive to produce.
ACCURATE ANSWER:- C
Reasoning :->>>>A major benefit of drugs that are easy to administer is that hospital clients
taking them are morelikely tocomply with the drugs regimen. Drugs that are easy to give may
have the other attributes listed, but those properties are independent of ease of administration.
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3. A hospital client tells the nursing attendant that an analgesic he will begin taking may cause
drowsiness and willdecrease pain up to 4 hours at a time. Based on this understanding of the
drugs’s effects by thehospital client, the nursing attendant will anticipate which outcome?
a. Decreased chance of having a placebo effect
b. Decreased motivation to take the drugs
c. Improved compliance with the drugs regimen
d. Increased likelihood of drugs overdose
ACCURATE ANSWER:- C
A drugs is effective if it produces the intended effects, even if it also produces side effects.
Hospital clients who understand both the risks and benefits of taking a drugs are more
likely tocomply with the drugs regimen.
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