BYU NURS 300 EXAM 1 (WEEKS 1-4) | 287 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
•You respond and find the hospital security guard carrying a mid 20-year-old
woman in his arms. She is unresponsive to all stimuli except pain. The security
guard said that he was doing his nightly check of the parking lot when he found
her laying face down in the snow. He immediately picked her up and brought
her into you.
•What questions do you have about this patient?
•What would be the first thing you do for her? Answer - vitals, head to toe
assessment, warm up pt, check her blood glucose
pt left AMA? Answer - against medical advice
Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Answer - talking about how drugs
effect the body and how the body works with different drugs.
Pharmcokinetics Answer - what the body does to the drug
Pharmacodynamics Answer - what the drug does to the body
Drugs Answer - •Any substance that brings about a change in biologic function
through chemical actions
,Poisons Answer - Drugs that have harmful effects
Drugs or medications Answer - synthetic or chemical extraction
Biologics Answer - Hormones, antibodies, vaccines, blood products
Alternative therapies Answer - Herbals preparations, vitamins
t/f any drugs can be a poison? Answer - true
Prescription Answer - Require order by licensed health care provider
Over-the-Counter Answer - No order required
Therapeutic Answer - Identifies medication according to usefulness in treating
specific disease
Pharmacologic Answer - Describes how medication works in the body
Prototype Drug Answer - A well-understood drug model—other drugs
compared to and modeled after the prototype drug for a class are very similar
Therapeutic Classification
Examples within Cardiovascular System? Answer - Anticoagulant
Antihyperlipidemic
Antihypertensive
Antidysrhythmic
,Antianginal
Anticoagulant Answer - Influences blood clotting
Antihyperlipidemic Answer - Lowers blood cholesterol
Antihypertensive Answer - Lowers blood pressure
Antidysrhythmic Answer - Restore/improves cardiac rhythm
Antianginal Answer - Treat angina
generic med name Answer - •Assigned, less complicated
•ondansetron
Trade/Brand name Answer - •Assigned by marketing company
•Zofran or Atossa
schedule 1 drug Answer - - marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin.
schedule 1 drug Answer - Classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration
as a drug that has high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical
use.
Schedule 2 meds Answer - - cocaine, opium, high grade morphine, oxycodone,
adderall (methanphetamines)
, Schedule 2 drugs Answer - High potential for abuse and have medical use with
severe restrictions - accepted in US
Schedule 3 meds Answer - low grade morphine, anabolic steroids, ketamine,
certain codeine mixtures
Schedule 3 drugs Answer - • Less abuse potential than schedule 1&2 drugs
• Accepted medical uses
• Moderate or low physical dependence
• High psychological dependence
schedule 4 drugs Answer - • Lower abuse potential than schedule 3 drugs
• Accepted medical uses
• Limited physical or psychological dependence
Teratogenic Drug Classification Answer - •Traditionally there were five
categories of risk that a drug poses to a fetus in the case of a pregnant woman
taking the drug
- •A, B, C, D, and X
•This classification system went out of use in 2014
•You may still see this classification
•We now use the Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling rule (PLLR) Answer - •This
system provides a summary of the literature regarding safety in pregnancy and
lactation for the medication
•Bioavailability Answer - •Amount of drug (unchanged) reaching the systemic
circulation following administration by any route. Oral is less than 100% (will
depend on many factors), IV is 100%
ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
•You respond and find the hospital security guard carrying a mid 20-year-old
woman in his arms. She is unresponsive to all stimuli except pain. The security
guard said that he was doing his nightly check of the parking lot when he found
her laying face down in the snow. He immediately picked her up and brought
her into you.
•What questions do you have about this patient?
•What would be the first thing you do for her? Answer - vitals, head to toe
assessment, warm up pt, check her blood glucose
pt left AMA? Answer - against medical advice
Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Answer - talking about how drugs
effect the body and how the body works with different drugs.
Pharmcokinetics Answer - what the body does to the drug
Pharmacodynamics Answer - what the drug does to the body
Drugs Answer - •Any substance that brings about a change in biologic function
through chemical actions
,Poisons Answer - Drugs that have harmful effects
Drugs or medications Answer - synthetic or chemical extraction
Biologics Answer - Hormones, antibodies, vaccines, blood products
Alternative therapies Answer - Herbals preparations, vitamins
t/f any drugs can be a poison? Answer - true
Prescription Answer - Require order by licensed health care provider
Over-the-Counter Answer - No order required
Therapeutic Answer - Identifies medication according to usefulness in treating
specific disease
Pharmacologic Answer - Describes how medication works in the body
Prototype Drug Answer - A well-understood drug model—other drugs
compared to and modeled after the prototype drug for a class are very similar
Therapeutic Classification
Examples within Cardiovascular System? Answer - Anticoagulant
Antihyperlipidemic
Antihypertensive
Antidysrhythmic
,Antianginal
Anticoagulant Answer - Influences blood clotting
Antihyperlipidemic Answer - Lowers blood cholesterol
Antihypertensive Answer - Lowers blood pressure
Antidysrhythmic Answer - Restore/improves cardiac rhythm
Antianginal Answer - Treat angina
generic med name Answer - •Assigned, less complicated
•ondansetron
Trade/Brand name Answer - •Assigned by marketing company
•Zofran or Atossa
schedule 1 drug Answer - - marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin.
schedule 1 drug Answer - Classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration
as a drug that has high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical
use.
Schedule 2 meds Answer - - cocaine, opium, high grade morphine, oxycodone,
adderall (methanphetamines)
, Schedule 2 drugs Answer - High potential for abuse and have medical use with
severe restrictions - accepted in US
Schedule 3 meds Answer - low grade morphine, anabolic steroids, ketamine,
certain codeine mixtures
Schedule 3 drugs Answer - • Less abuse potential than schedule 1&2 drugs
• Accepted medical uses
• Moderate or low physical dependence
• High psychological dependence
schedule 4 drugs Answer - • Lower abuse potential than schedule 3 drugs
• Accepted medical uses
• Limited physical or psychological dependence
Teratogenic Drug Classification Answer - •Traditionally there were five
categories of risk that a drug poses to a fetus in the case of a pregnant woman
taking the drug
- •A, B, C, D, and X
•This classification system went out of use in 2014
•You may still see this classification
•We now use the Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling rule (PLLR) Answer - •This
system provides a summary of the literature regarding safety in pregnancy and
lactation for the medication
•Bioavailability Answer - •Amount of drug (unchanged) reaching the systemic
circulation following administration by any route. Oral is less than 100% (will
depend on many factors), IV is 100%
