Test Bank - Focus on Nursing Pharmacology 9th Edition by Amy
Karch Chapter 1-59 | Complete Guide 2025
,
,Chapter 01 - Introduction to Drugs
A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed tomography (CT) scan. The
nurse working on the oncology unit administers chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public
Health Department, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month-old child
as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actions of all three nurses?
Pharmacoeconomics
Pharmacotherapeutics
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics Ans:
B
Feedback:
Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with clinical pharmacology
or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent,
and diagnose disease. The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help diagnose a disease. The oncology
nurse is administering a drug to help treat a disease.
Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug
affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on the body.
A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as needed for pain in a
motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this drug has a high abuse potential.
Under what category would morphine be classified?
Schedule I
Schedule II
Schedule III
Schedule IV
Ans: B
, Feedback:
Narcotics with a high abuse potential are classified as Schedule II drugs because of severe dependence
Karch Chapter 1-59 | Complete Guide 2025
,
,Chapter 01 - Introduction to Drugs
A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed tomography (CT) scan. The
nurse working on the oncology unit administers chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public
Health Department, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month-old child
as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actions of all three nurses?
Pharmacoeconomics
Pharmacotherapeutics
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics Ans:
B
Feedback:
Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with clinical pharmacology
or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent,
and diagnose disease. The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help diagnose a disease. The oncology
nurse is administering a drug to help treat a disease.
Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug
affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on the body.
A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as needed for pain in a
motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this drug has a high abuse potential.
Under what category would morphine be classified?
Schedule I
Schedule II
Schedule III
Schedule IV
Ans: B
, Feedback:
Narcotics with a high abuse potential are classified as Schedule II drugs because of severe dependence
