2024 WGU COURSE D398 INTRO TO PHARMACOLOGY
LATEST EXAM REAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) A
NEW UPDATED VERSION |GUARANTEED PASS A+
(BRAND NEW!!)
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act - ANSWER: Which act or amendment was the first to
regulate the manufacture or sale of adulterated or misbranded drugs in interstate
commerce?
1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - ANSWER: Required safety testing prior
to making a new drug available to the market. Established the FDA
1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA) - ANSWER: Which act classified 5 levels of
drugs (controlled substances) that have potential for abuse and restricts their
distribution. Establishes the DEA, under the Justice Department, to enforce its
regulations.
Drug Scheduling - ANSWER: Schedule I: High abuse potential and no current medical
uses.
II: High abuse potential, but there are current medical uses.
III: Slightly less abuse potential, but high psychological dependence.
IV: Even less abuse potential
V: Even less abuse potential
FDA (Food and Drug Administration) - ANSWER: Concerned with general safety
standards in the production of drugs, foods, cosmetics
Drug Indication - ANSWER: what the drug is intended to do
Contraindications - ANSWER: specific signs or circumstances under which it is not
appropriate and may be harmful to administer a drug to a patient
enteral route - ANSWER: Administration of drugs orally, and through nasogastric or
gastrostomy tubes.
Po - ANSWER: by mouth
Per Os - ANSWER: orally, by mouth
Bid - ANSWER: twice daily
bis in die - ANSWER: twice a day
C - ANSWER: With
, Cum - ANSWER: With
Rx - ANSWER: prescription, take, treatment
Recipere - ANSWER: Take
Rights of Drug Administration - ANSWER: Right drug or form
Right client
Right time
Right documentation
Right route
Right technique
Right dosage
Routes of Administration - ANSWER: enteral, parenteral, topical
Pharmacokinetics - ANSWER: the study of drug movement throughout the body
Synergism - ANSWER: combination of two drugs causes an effect that is greater than
the sum of the individual effects of each drug alone
Potentiation - ANSWER: drug interaction that occurs when the effect of one drug is
increased by another drug, herbal remedy, or other treatment
Antagonism of medication action - ANSWER: One medication reduces or diminishes
the impact of another
Cardiac Glycosides - ANSWER: Digoxin (Lanoxin)
Dixogin (Lanoxin) - ANSWER: Side effects: irritability, tremors, seizures, double vision,
visual halls and inability to sleep
antiarrhythmic drugs - ANSWER: used to treat abnormal heart rhythm or abnormal
electrical pattern
Amiodarone (Cordarone) - ANSWER: Antidysrhythmic agent. Prolongs repolarization,
relaxes smooth muscles, decreases vascular resistance. For ventricular fibrillation
and unstable ventricular tachycardia. Incompatible with heparin, may be given in PO
maintenance dose, monitor for respiratory complications.
Amiodarone side effects - ANSWER: Tremors, numbness, visual disturbances, lung
scarring, thickness
Beta Blockers - ANSWER: -olol; metoprolol (Toprol)
Calcium Channel Blockers - ANSWER: -dipine; amlodipine (Norvasc)
LATEST EXAM REAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) A
NEW UPDATED VERSION |GUARANTEED PASS A+
(BRAND NEW!!)
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act - ANSWER: Which act or amendment was the first to
regulate the manufacture or sale of adulterated or misbranded drugs in interstate
commerce?
1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - ANSWER: Required safety testing prior
to making a new drug available to the market. Established the FDA
1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA) - ANSWER: Which act classified 5 levels of
drugs (controlled substances) that have potential for abuse and restricts their
distribution. Establishes the DEA, under the Justice Department, to enforce its
regulations.
Drug Scheduling - ANSWER: Schedule I: High abuse potential and no current medical
uses.
II: High abuse potential, but there are current medical uses.
III: Slightly less abuse potential, but high psychological dependence.
IV: Even less abuse potential
V: Even less abuse potential
FDA (Food and Drug Administration) - ANSWER: Concerned with general safety
standards in the production of drugs, foods, cosmetics
Drug Indication - ANSWER: what the drug is intended to do
Contraindications - ANSWER: specific signs or circumstances under which it is not
appropriate and may be harmful to administer a drug to a patient
enteral route - ANSWER: Administration of drugs orally, and through nasogastric or
gastrostomy tubes.
Po - ANSWER: by mouth
Per Os - ANSWER: orally, by mouth
Bid - ANSWER: twice daily
bis in die - ANSWER: twice a day
C - ANSWER: With
, Cum - ANSWER: With
Rx - ANSWER: prescription, take, treatment
Recipere - ANSWER: Take
Rights of Drug Administration - ANSWER: Right drug or form
Right client
Right time
Right documentation
Right route
Right technique
Right dosage
Routes of Administration - ANSWER: enteral, parenteral, topical
Pharmacokinetics - ANSWER: the study of drug movement throughout the body
Synergism - ANSWER: combination of two drugs causes an effect that is greater than
the sum of the individual effects of each drug alone
Potentiation - ANSWER: drug interaction that occurs when the effect of one drug is
increased by another drug, herbal remedy, or other treatment
Antagonism of medication action - ANSWER: One medication reduces or diminishes
the impact of another
Cardiac Glycosides - ANSWER: Digoxin (Lanoxin)
Dixogin (Lanoxin) - ANSWER: Side effects: irritability, tremors, seizures, double vision,
visual halls and inability to sleep
antiarrhythmic drugs - ANSWER: used to treat abnormal heart rhythm or abnormal
electrical pattern
Amiodarone (Cordarone) - ANSWER: Antidysrhythmic agent. Prolongs repolarization,
relaxes smooth muscles, decreases vascular resistance. For ventricular fibrillation
and unstable ventricular tachycardia. Incompatible with heparin, may be given in PO
maintenance dose, monitor for respiratory complications.
Amiodarone side effects - ANSWER: Tremors, numbness, visual disturbances, lung
scarring, thickness
Beta Blockers - ANSWER: -olol; metoprolol (Toprol)
Calcium Channel Blockers - ANSWER: -dipine; amlodipine (Norvasc)
