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Pharmacology for Nurses-A Pathophysiologic Approach,
7th Edition (Adams, 2024), Chapters 1 - 50

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er 1 Introduction to Pharmacology
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1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of pharmacology with a student nurse.Wh
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ich student comment indicates an understanding?
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1. "Early researchers used themselves as test subjects."
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2. "A primary goal of pharmacology is to prevent disease."
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3. "Penicillin is one of the initial drugs isolated from a natural source."
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4. "Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the laboratory in the nineteenthcentur QW QW QW QW QW QW QW QW QW Q
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anation:
1. Some early researchers, like Friedrich Serturner, used themselves as testsubj
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ects.
2. An early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
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3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included morphine, colchicine,cura
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re, and cocaine, but not penicillin.
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4. By the twentieth century, pharmacologists could synthesize drugs in thelabor
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atory.
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Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies Standards:
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Q WQSEN Competencies: I.A.1 Integrate understanding of multiple dimensions of patient-
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centered care: patient/family/community preferences, values; coordination and integration of
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Wcare; information, communication, and education; physical comfort and emotional support; i
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nvolvement of family and friends; and transition and continuity.
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| AACN Essential Competencies: I.7 Integrate the knowledge and methods of a variety ofdisc
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iplines to inform decision making. | NLN Competencies: Knowledge and Science: Integration
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of knowledge from nursing and other disciplines. | Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing P
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1 Identify key events in the history of pharmacology. MNL Learning Outcome: 1
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.1 Examine the relationship between medicine andpharmacology.
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2) A student nurse asks a nursing instructor why anatomy and physiology as well asmicr
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obiology are required courses when the student only wants to learn about pharmaco
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logy. What is the best response by the instructor?
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1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects." QW QW QW QW QW QW QW



2. "You must learn all, since all of those subjects are part of the curriculum."
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3. "Knowledge of all those subjects will prepare you to administer medication."
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4. "An understanding of those subjects is essential to understand pharmacology."ANS;
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Explanation:
1. Pharmacology is an outgrowth of anatomy, physiology, and microbiology, butthis i
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s not the most essential reason for the nurse to learn them.
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2. The nurse must learn anatomy, physiology, and microbiology to understandphar
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