Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse
Prescribers
1. Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?: The
State Board of Nursing for Each State
2. What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber?: APRN's care for
pa- tients more holistically and include patients in making decisions
regarding their care
3. What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?: Factoring in the
cost of the particular
4. What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a
disorder?: Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease
management
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,5. NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what?: NP's
have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
6. Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this
important for prescribers?: The Distribution of drugs to target tissues
may be affected
7. Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what?: they are
rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired
action
8. The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?: Lungs
9. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create
storage reservoir of the drug. What are storage reserviors>: Increased
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, the length of time a drug is available and active
10.Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug
does the NP know?: Half Life
11.Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those
of the other four day; This is considered a loading does. What is a
loading dose?: Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
12.The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the
first sign of a therapeutic effect is the:: Onset of action
13.Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are
peak and trough levels are done: To determine if a d rug is in the
therapeutic range
14.Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?:
Con- centrations will produce an adverse effect
15.Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include: Lipid solubility of
the drug
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Prescribers
1. Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who?: The
State Board of Nursing for Each State
2. What is the benefits of having an APRN prescriber?: APRN's care for
pa- tients more holistically and include patients in making decisions
regarding their care
3. What does clinical judgement in prescribing include?: Factoring in the
cost of the particular
4. What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a
disorder?: Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease
management
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,5. NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what?: NP's
have the ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
6. Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this
important for prescribers?: The Distribution of drugs to target tissues
may be affected
7. Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what?: they are
rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired
action
8. The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be?: Lungs
9. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create
storage reservoir of the drug. What are storage reserviors>: Increased
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, the length of time a drug is available and active
10.Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug
does the NP know?: Half Life
11.Azithromycin doing requires that the first day's doing be twice those
of the other four day; This is considered a loading does. What is a
loading dose?: Rapidly actives drug levels in the therapeutic range
12.The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the
first sign of a therapeutic effect is the:: Onset of action
13.Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are
peak and trough levels are done: To determine if a d rug is in the
therapeutic range
14.Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property?:
Con- centrations will produce an adverse effect
15.Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include: Lipid solubility of
the drug
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