Pharmacology 141 test 1 Questions With Complete Solutions
10 Steps to administering ear drops Correct Answers 1. Check
order in explain procedure
2. Hand hygiene and put on gloves
3. Have patient in side-lying position or sitting position with
head tilted with ear to be treated facing up
4. Assess ear canal for cerumen build up.
5. Straighten ear canal by pulling auricle outward and down for
a child, or auricle outward and up for an adult
6. Instill prescribe drops by holding Dropper 1 centimeter above
ear canal
7. Rest hand with dropper on head to prevent injury is sudden
movement
8. As patient to remain inside line position for five minutes
9. Apply gentle massage or pressure to tragus of ear with gloves
finger
10. Insert cotton ball only if ordered and remove in 15 minutes
4 steps to administering buccal medication Correct Answers 1.
Hand hygiene put on gloves
2. Medicine is placed between the cheek and upper molar
3. Caution against swallowing
4. Do not administer with water
4 steps to giving sublingual medicine Correct Answers 1. Place
tablet using gloves under the tongue
2. Absorb rapidly by the numerous blood vessels under the
tongue
3. Caution against swallowing
4. Do not administer with water
,6 steps to administering ophthalmic eye drop medications
Correct Answers 1. Hand hygiene and put on gloves
2. With dominant hand resting on patient forehead, hold
eyedropper 1 - 2 cm above conjunctival sac
3. Drop prescribed number of drops into Sac while holding it
open with non-dominant hand
4. If patient blinks, repeat procedure for drugs that didn't enter
sac
5. Apply gentle pressure to conjunctival SAC with sterile gauze
for 30 to 60 Seconds
6. After instilling ask patient to close eyes gently
6 steps to giving liquid meds with NG's or PEGS Correct
Answers 1. put patient in semi to high fowlers position.
2. Check placement
3. Flush tube with 10 to 30 ml water
4. Instill medication using syringe
5. Allowed to Flow by gravity
6. Flush with 10 to 30 ml water
8 steps to installing ophthalmic medications ointments Correct
Answers 1. Hand hygiene put on gloves
2. Wipe secretions from eye from inner to Outer canthus with a
sterile gauze
3. have patient tilt head back and look up
4. With gentle traction open the conjunctival sac
5. squeeze tube of medication to instill even strip along the
border of the sac from inner to Outer canthus
6. Release the lower lid
, 7. Have patient to close eye and move it around to distribute
medicine
8. Wipe excess with a clean tissue
A drug has a half life of 4 hours. If at eight o'clock the drug
level is measured at 200 milligrams, at what time will the drug
level be at 50 milligrams? Correct Answers 8:00 200 MG
1200 100 MG
1600 50 MG
A drug that is absorbed from the intestine must first pass
through the ________ before it reaches the systemic circulation.
Correct Answers Liver
Absorption Correct Answers Movement of a drug from the site
of administration into the bloodstream for distribution to the
tissues.
Acute Correct Answers Intensive drug treatment for Rapid
onset of critically ill as in chemotherapy
Additive effects Correct Answers Two drugs, similar actions
given together have additive effects
Advantages of taking oral medications? Correct Answers Most
convenient, usually least expensive, safe, does not break the
Skin Barrier, if client takes too much it can be removed by
vomiting, usually does not cause anxiety
Adverse drug event Correct Answers A broad term for any
undesirable occurrence involving medications
10 Steps to administering ear drops Correct Answers 1. Check
order in explain procedure
2. Hand hygiene and put on gloves
3. Have patient in side-lying position or sitting position with
head tilted with ear to be treated facing up
4. Assess ear canal for cerumen build up.
5. Straighten ear canal by pulling auricle outward and down for
a child, or auricle outward and up for an adult
6. Instill prescribe drops by holding Dropper 1 centimeter above
ear canal
7. Rest hand with dropper on head to prevent injury is sudden
movement
8. As patient to remain inside line position for five minutes
9. Apply gentle massage or pressure to tragus of ear with gloves
finger
10. Insert cotton ball only if ordered and remove in 15 minutes
4 steps to administering buccal medication Correct Answers 1.
Hand hygiene put on gloves
2. Medicine is placed between the cheek and upper molar
3. Caution against swallowing
4. Do not administer with water
4 steps to giving sublingual medicine Correct Answers 1. Place
tablet using gloves under the tongue
2. Absorb rapidly by the numerous blood vessels under the
tongue
3. Caution against swallowing
4. Do not administer with water
,6 steps to administering ophthalmic eye drop medications
Correct Answers 1. Hand hygiene and put on gloves
2. With dominant hand resting on patient forehead, hold
eyedropper 1 - 2 cm above conjunctival sac
3. Drop prescribed number of drops into Sac while holding it
open with non-dominant hand
4. If patient blinks, repeat procedure for drugs that didn't enter
sac
5. Apply gentle pressure to conjunctival SAC with sterile gauze
for 30 to 60 Seconds
6. After instilling ask patient to close eyes gently
6 steps to giving liquid meds with NG's or PEGS Correct
Answers 1. put patient in semi to high fowlers position.
2. Check placement
3. Flush tube with 10 to 30 ml water
4. Instill medication using syringe
5. Allowed to Flow by gravity
6. Flush with 10 to 30 ml water
8 steps to installing ophthalmic medications ointments Correct
Answers 1. Hand hygiene put on gloves
2. Wipe secretions from eye from inner to Outer canthus with a
sterile gauze
3. have patient tilt head back and look up
4. With gentle traction open the conjunctival sac
5. squeeze tube of medication to instill even strip along the
border of the sac from inner to Outer canthus
6. Release the lower lid
, 7. Have patient to close eye and move it around to distribute
medicine
8. Wipe excess with a clean tissue
A drug has a half life of 4 hours. If at eight o'clock the drug
level is measured at 200 milligrams, at what time will the drug
level be at 50 milligrams? Correct Answers 8:00 200 MG
1200 100 MG
1600 50 MG
A drug that is absorbed from the intestine must first pass
through the ________ before it reaches the systemic circulation.
Correct Answers Liver
Absorption Correct Answers Movement of a drug from the site
of administration into the bloodstream for distribution to the
tissues.
Acute Correct Answers Intensive drug treatment for Rapid
onset of critically ill as in chemotherapy
Additive effects Correct Answers Two drugs, similar actions
given together have additive effects
Advantages of taking oral medications? Correct Answers Most
convenient, usually least expensive, safe, does not break the
Skin Barrier, if client takes too much it can be removed by
vomiting, usually does not cause anxiety
Adverse drug event Correct Answers A broad term for any
undesirable occurrence involving medications
