Pharmacology PaxPat Questions with Answers
1. Licensed pharmacists work only in labs, and not with people: False
2. Outpatient health delivery is called:: Ambulatory care
3. Which isn't a pharmacist's responsibility: taking x-rays of a broken hip
4. One of the jobs of a pharmacist is to hep people learn how to take prescrip-tion
medications at the right time and at the right dose: True
5. In pharmacy school, a "rotation" means: working at ditterent professional locations
6. An acute care pharmacy setting is: in a hospital
7. What is true about taking medication: it is common for people who have several diseases to take many
medications
8. Diabetes is a simple disease to treat, and requires very little attention and care from
the patient: false
9. A diabetic tests his blood: by pricking his finger and squeezing a drop of blood on to a special test strip
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, 10. An allergic reaction to a medication will always happen immediately once the
medication is ingested: False
11. If a patient on antibiotics begins to feel better, but still has several days of
medication left, he should: continue taking the medication for as long as it is prescribed
12. Anaphylaxis is: a severe allergic reaction
13. antibiotics: are used to fight bacterial infections
14. an allergic reaction occurs because: the patient's immune system thinks the drug is dangerous
15. anaphylaxis symptoms and response: drops blood pressure and breathing, weakens pulse, nausea
(caused by food insect bites, latex contact), alert school, work place, family and friends, alert bracelet
16. if a patient is allergic to a medication, they will have a reaction immediate-ly: false
(3rd time because at first immune system doesn't recognize)
17. Compounding: changing medicine form into another without losing potency/efficacy
18. Triturate: Grind up (tablet) into powder in mortar and pestle
19. Levigation: taking wetting agent to grind powder size even smaller into paste
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1. Licensed pharmacists work only in labs, and not with people: False
2. Outpatient health delivery is called:: Ambulatory care
3. Which isn't a pharmacist's responsibility: taking x-rays of a broken hip
4. One of the jobs of a pharmacist is to hep people learn how to take prescrip-tion
medications at the right time and at the right dose: True
5. In pharmacy school, a "rotation" means: working at ditterent professional locations
6. An acute care pharmacy setting is: in a hospital
7. What is true about taking medication: it is common for people who have several diseases to take many
medications
8. Diabetes is a simple disease to treat, and requires very little attention and care from
the patient: false
9. A diabetic tests his blood: by pricking his finger and squeezing a drop of blood on to a special test strip
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, 10. An allergic reaction to a medication will always happen immediately once the
medication is ingested: False
11. If a patient on antibiotics begins to feel better, but still has several days of
medication left, he should: continue taking the medication for as long as it is prescribed
12. Anaphylaxis is: a severe allergic reaction
13. antibiotics: are used to fight bacterial infections
14. an allergic reaction occurs because: the patient's immune system thinks the drug is dangerous
15. anaphylaxis symptoms and response: drops blood pressure and breathing, weakens pulse, nausea
(caused by food insect bites, latex contact), alert school, work place, family and friends, alert bracelet
16. if a patient is allergic to a medication, they will have a reaction immediate-ly: false
(3rd time because at first immune system doesn't recognize)
17. Compounding: changing medicine form into another without losing potency/efficacy
18. Triturate: Grind up (tablet) into powder in mortar and pestle
19. Levigation: taking wetting agent to grind powder size even smaller into paste
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