NURS 1140: PHARMACOLOGY: EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1) Patients that tend to metabolize drugs more rapidly -- Answer ✔✔ Patients with
a higher than average metabolic rate (patients with hyperthyroidism); Require
larger doses or more frequent administration
2) Patients that tend to metabolize drugs more slowly -- Answer ✔✔ Patients with
lower than average metabolic rates (patients with hypothyroidism)
3) Placebo effect -- Answer ✔✔ A patient's positive expectations about treatment
and the care received can positively affect the outcome of therapy
4) nocebo effect -- Answer ✔✔ The negative expectations about therapy and the
care received results in less than optimal outcomes of therapy
5) Placebo -- Answer ✔✔ A drug dosage form that has no pharmacologic activity
because the dosage form has no active ingredients
6) Drug dependence -- Answer ✔✔ also known as addiction or habituation, occurs
when a person is unable to control his or her desire for ingestion of drugs
,7) Physiologic drug dependence -- Answer ✔✔ person develops withdrawal
symptoms if drug is withdrawn for a certain period
8) Psychological drug dependence -- Answer ✔✔ The patient is emotionally
attached to the drug
9) Drug accumulation -- Answer ✔✔ Occurs when the next dose is given before
the previously given drug has been metabolized or excreted. May result in drug
toxicity. The rate of consumption exceeds the rate of metabolism and excretion
10) Carcinogenicity -- Answer ✔✔ the ability of a substance to cause cancer
11) Factors that influence drug actions such as absorption, metabolism, excretion and
distribution? -- Answer ✔✔ Age and gender
12) What are the medication's that should never be crushed and why? -- Answer
✔✔ Time to release tablets, enteric coated tablets, and sublingual tablets.
Because of the effect on the absorption rate and the potential for toxicity.
13) Pharmacogenetics focus is? -- Answer ✔✔ Determining the appropriate drug to
use based on the individuals genetic composition
14) Passive diffusion -- Answer ✔✔ the movement of drugs from an area of higher
concentration to lower concentration depending on the pH of the environment
15) Intestinal transit -- Answer ✔✔ refers to the speed at which the intestine moves
foods, secretions and other ingested matter along and this rate varies with age
, 16) A medical diagnosis -- Answer ✔✔ statement of the patient's alterations in
structure and function, and this results in the diagnosis of a disease or disorder
that impairs normal physiologic function
17) defining characteristics -- Answer ✔✔ The manifestations, or signs and
symptoms, of a diagnosis.
18) the wording of an actual nursing diagnosis: -- Answer ✔✔ 3 part statement that
consists of (1) a Patient problems summarizing the issue (2) the contributing
factors or cause, which may include the contributing factors or cause, which may
include deficits in ADL's or the medical diagnosis, and (3) the defining
characteristics (i.e....manifestations or signs and symptoms)
19) The risk diagnosis statement -- Answer ✔✔ Consist of two parts; 1. The
diagnostic label from the NANDA-I approved the list 2. The risk factors that
make the individual more susceptible to the development of the problem
20) focused assessment -- Answer ✔✔ the process of collecting additional data
specific to a patient or family that validates a suggested problem or nursing
diagnosis
21) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Answer ✔✔ physiological, safety, love/belonging,
esteem, self-actualization (bottom to top)
22) The four phases of planning (The five step nursing process) -- Answer ✔✔ 1.
Priority setting
2. Development of measurable goals and outcomes statements
3. The formulation of nursing interventions
4. The formulation of anticipated therapeutic outcomes that can be used to
evaluate the patient status
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1) Patients that tend to metabolize drugs more rapidly -- Answer ✔✔ Patients with
a higher than average metabolic rate (patients with hyperthyroidism); Require
larger doses or more frequent administration
2) Patients that tend to metabolize drugs more slowly -- Answer ✔✔ Patients with
lower than average metabolic rates (patients with hypothyroidism)
3) Placebo effect -- Answer ✔✔ A patient's positive expectations about treatment
and the care received can positively affect the outcome of therapy
4) nocebo effect -- Answer ✔✔ The negative expectations about therapy and the
care received results in less than optimal outcomes of therapy
5) Placebo -- Answer ✔✔ A drug dosage form that has no pharmacologic activity
because the dosage form has no active ingredients
6) Drug dependence -- Answer ✔✔ also known as addiction or habituation, occurs
when a person is unable to control his or her desire for ingestion of drugs
,7) Physiologic drug dependence -- Answer ✔✔ person develops withdrawal
symptoms if drug is withdrawn for a certain period
8) Psychological drug dependence -- Answer ✔✔ The patient is emotionally
attached to the drug
9) Drug accumulation -- Answer ✔✔ Occurs when the next dose is given before
the previously given drug has been metabolized or excreted. May result in drug
toxicity. The rate of consumption exceeds the rate of metabolism and excretion
10) Carcinogenicity -- Answer ✔✔ the ability of a substance to cause cancer
11) Factors that influence drug actions such as absorption, metabolism, excretion and
distribution? -- Answer ✔✔ Age and gender
12) What are the medication's that should never be crushed and why? -- Answer
✔✔ Time to release tablets, enteric coated tablets, and sublingual tablets.
Because of the effect on the absorption rate and the potential for toxicity.
13) Pharmacogenetics focus is? -- Answer ✔✔ Determining the appropriate drug to
use based on the individuals genetic composition
14) Passive diffusion -- Answer ✔✔ the movement of drugs from an area of higher
concentration to lower concentration depending on the pH of the environment
15) Intestinal transit -- Answer ✔✔ refers to the speed at which the intestine moves
foods, secretions and other ingested matter along and this rate varies with age
, 16) A medical diagnosis -- Answer ✔✔ statement of the patient's alterations in
structure and function, and this results in the diagnosis of a disease or disorder
that impairs normal physiologic function
17) defining characteristics -- Answer ✔✔ The manifestations, or signs and
symptoms, of a diagnosis.
18) the wording of an actual nursing diagnosis: -- Answer ✔✔ 3 part statement that
consists of (1) a Patient problems summarizing the issue (2) the contributing
factors or cause, which may include the contributing factors or cause, which may
include deficits in ADL's or the medical diagnosis, and (3) the defining
characteristics (i.e....manifestations or signs and symptoms)
19) The risk diagnosis statement -- Answer ✔✔ Consist of two parts; 1. The
diagnostic label from the NANDA-I approved the list 2. The risk factors that
make the individual more susceptible to the development of the problem
20) focused assessment -- Answer ✔✔ the process of collecting additional data
specific to a patient or family that validates a suggested problem or nursing
diagnosis
21) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Answer ✔✔ physiological, safety, love/belonging,
esteem, self-actualization (bottom to top)
22) The four phases of planning (The five step nursing process) -- Answer ✔✔ 1.
Priority setting
2. Development of measurable goals and outcomes statements
3. The formulation of nursing interventions
4. The formulation of anticipated therapeutic outcomes that can be used to
evaluate the patient status
