NURS 1140: PHARMACOLOGY: EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
1) Anti-Diarrheal Medication Classes -- Answer ✔✔ All - Adsorbents
Animals - Anticholinergics
Openly - Opiates
Poop - Probiotics
2) Laxative Medication Classes: MUSH -- Answer ✔✔ Every - Emollients
Hairy - Hyperosmotics
Sack - Saline
3) Laxative Medication Classes: PUSH -- Answer ✔✔ Big - Bulk Forming Stimulant
Poop - Peripherally Acting Opioid Antagonists
4) Adsorbents as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Coats the walls of the GI tract,
bind to the causative bacteria or toxin, and then eliminated through the stool.
5) Anticholinergics as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Reduces rhythmic peristalsis
movement of intestines, reduces gastric secretions, and causes drying effect.
, 6) Opiates as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Decrease transit time of food through
bowel, reduce bowel motility, increases absorption of fluids through intestines,
and reduces intestinal/rectal pain from diarrhea.
7) Probiotics as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Replenishes gut's normal bacterial
flora, helps suppress growth of bad bacteria, is used with an antibiotic
8) Bulk forming laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Function like Fiber: Absorbs water into
intestines, increases bulk/distends the bowel, causes reflex bowel activity
(psyllium, methylcellulose, polycarbophil)
9) Emollient laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Lubricates feces/intestines, prevents
reabsorption of water, water softens stool, causes bowel distention and
peristalsis (mineral oil, Docusate, stool softeners, lubricants)
10) Hyperosmotic laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Increases fecal water content, causes
bowel distention and peristalsis (lactulose syrup)
11) Saline Laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ AKA Enemas: Inhibits water absorption,
increased osmotic pressure, increased water and saline in bowel, causes watery
stool. (Magnesium hydroxide (Milk of Magnesia); Magnesium citrate (Citroma))
12) Stimulant laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Stimulates the nerves that innervate the
intestines, causing peristalsis (Bisacodyl: Dulcolax or Sennakot)
13) Peripherally Acting Opioid Antagonists -- Answer ✔✔ Treatment of constipation
related to opioid use and bowel resection therapy, Blocks entrance of opioid into
bowel, Allow bowel to function normally with continued opioid use
(methylnaltrexone (Relistor); alvimopan (Entereg))
14) Autonomic Nervous System -- Answer ✔✔ Controls internal organs; Involuntary
WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
1) Anti-Diarrheal Medication Classes -- Answer ✔✔ All - Adsorbents
Animals - Anticholinergics
Openly - Opiates
Poop - Probiotics
2) Laxative Medication Classes: MUSH -- Answer ✔✔ Every - Emollients
Hairy - Hyperosmotics
Sack - Saline
3) Laxative Medication Classes: PUSH -- Answer ✔✔ Big - Bulk Forming Stimulant
Poop - Peripherally Acting Opioid Antagonists
4) Adsorbents as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Coats the walls of the GI tract,
bind to the causative bacteria or toxin, and then eliminated through the stool.
5) Anticholinergics as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Reduces rhythmic peristalsis
movement of intestines, reduces gastric secretions, and causes drying effect.
, 6) Opiates as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Decrease transit time of food through
bowel, reduce bowel motility, increases absorption of fluids through intestines,
and reduces intestinal/rectal pain from diarrhea.
7) Probiotics as an Antidiarrheal -- Answer ✔✔ Replenishes gut's normal bacterial
flora, helps suppress growth of bad bacteria, is used with an antibiotic
8) Bulk forming laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Function like Fiber: Absorbs water into
intestines, increases bulk/distends the bowel, causes reflex bowel activity
(psyllium, methylcellulose, polycarbophil)
9) Emollient laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Lubricates feces/intestines, prevents
reabsorption of water, water softens stool, causes bowel distention and
peristalsis (mineral oil, Docusate, stool softeners, lubricants)
10) Hyperosmotic laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Increases fecal water content, causes
bowel distention and peristalsis (lactulose syrup)
11) Saline Laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ AKA Enemas: Inhibits water absorption,
increased osmotic pressure, increased water and saline in bowel, causes watery
stool. (Magnesium hydroxide (Milk of Magnesia); Magnesium citrate (Citroma))
12) Stimulant laxatives -- Answer ✔✔ Stimulates the nerves that innervate the
intestines, causing peristalsis (Bisacodyl: Dulcolax or Sennakot)
13) Peripherally Acting Opioid Antagonists -- Answer ✔✔ Treatment of constipation
related to opioid use and bowel resection therapy, Blocks entrance of opioid into
bowel, Allow bowel to function normally with continued opioid use
(methylnaltrexone (Relistor); alvimopan (Entereg))
14) Autonomic Nervous System -- Answer ✔✔ Controls internal organs; Involuntary
