NUR 635 - Midterm Exam with correct
answers
Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the treatment of
Parkinson's Disease - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Bromocriptine
What medication may cause serious or possibly life-threatening
sleep behaviors, such as sleep driving? - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Ambien
Taking too much of this type of drug can make you "blind as a bat"
or "mad as a hatter" - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Pharmacokinetics
Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Neostigmine, pyridostigmine
,This drug has a very narrow therapeutic index and high risk for
toxicity, therefore levels should be monitored frequently -
🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Lithium
The drug class that carries an increased risk of suicidality in
children, adolescents, and young adults - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔SSRIs/SNRIs
The antidote for organophosphate poisoning - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Atropine
This drug class double the rate of mortality in older adults with
dementia - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Antipsychotics
In infants, this is not fully developed and therefore infants are more
sensitive to CNS drugs - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Blood Brain
Barrier
Time of development that fetus is at highest risk of teratogenicity
from a drug - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔First trimester
, Do not stop this class of drug abruptly due to an increased risk of
cardiovascular events - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Beta-blockers
Agents that indirectly block the breakdown of acetylcholine and are
often used in treatment of Alzheimer's Disease - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Cholinesterase inhibitors
Adverse drug reaction that causes difficulty speaking and chewing
and worm-like movements of the tongue - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Tardive Dyskinesia
Receptor found in the lungs that causes bronchodilation when
activated - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Beta 2 Receptors
This drug has led to the death of children in ultrarapid
metabolizers as 10% of the drug is converted to morphine -
🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Codeine
Leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S. - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Hepatotoxic drugs
answers
Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the treatment of
Parkinson's Disease - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Bromocriptine
What medication may cause serious or possibly life-threatening
sleep behaviors, such as sleep driving? - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Ambien
Taking too much of this type of drug can make you "blind as a bat"
or "mad as a hatter" - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Pharmacokinetics
Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Neostigmine, pyridostigmine
,This drug has a very narrow therapeutic index and high risk for
toxicity, therefore levels should be monitored frequently -
🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Lithium
The drug class that carries an increased risk of suicidality in
children, adolescents, and young adults - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔SSRIs/SNRIs
The antidote for organophosphate poisoning - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Atropine
This drug class double the rate of mortality in older adults with
dementia - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Antipsychotics
In infants, this is not fully developed and therefore infants are more
sensitive to CNS drugs - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Blood Brain
Barrier
Time of development that fetus is at highest risk of teratogenicity
from a drug - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔First trimester
, Do not stop this class of drug abruptly due to an increased risk of
cardiovascular events - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Beta-blockers
Agents that indirectly block the breakdown of acetylcholine and are
often used in treatment of Alzheimer's Disease - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Cholinesterase inhibitors
Adverse drug reaction that causes difficulty speaking and chewing
and worm-like movements of the tongue - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Tardive Dyskinesia
Receptor found in the lungs that causes bronchodilation when
activated - 🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Beta 2 Receptors
This drug has led to the death of children in ultrarapid
metabolizers as 10% of the drug is converted to morphine -
🔹CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Codeine
Leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S. - 🔹CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Hepatotoxic drugs
