PHARMACOLOGY AND THE NURSING
PROCESS 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ active transport.
Answer: the movement of materials through a cell membrane using
energy
⩥ Diffusion.
Answer: passive movement of a substance between diffrent tissues from
areas of higher concentration
⩥ neonate.
Answer: pertaining to a person younger than 1 month of age; newborn
infant
⩥ older adult.
Answer: pertaining to a person who is 65 years of age or older
⩥ pediatric.
Answer: pertaining to a person who is 12 years of age or younger
,⩥ Polypharmacy.
Answer: The use of many different drugs concurrently in treating a
patient, who often has several health problems.
⩥ Greatest danger of drug induced developmental defects.
Answer: First trimester of pregnancy
⩥ Safety and Potential harm of drug therapy during pregnacy can be
broadly broken down into 3 areas:.
Answer: Drug properties, Fetal gestation, maternal factors
⩥ Drug properties that impact drug transfer to the fetus include:.
Answer: Drug'c chemistry, dosage, and concurrently administered drugs.
⩥ Gestation age is important in pharmacology because.
Answer: it determines when the drug can most easily cross the placenta
and into the fetus.
⩥ The greatest percentage of maternally absorbed drugs is during.
Answer: the last trimester
⩥ Any change in the mothers ________ can change the amount of drug
in which the fetus can get exposed to.
, Answer: phyiology
⩥ exposure to the fetus to drugs is most detrimental in the ________
trimester, it is more likely during the _________.
Answer: first, last
⩥ When does a drug outweigh the risk in pregnacy?.
Answer: Hypertension, epilepsy, diabetes, and infection
⩥ look at chart.
Answer:
⩥ What infants are at exposure from drugs consumed my mother.
Answer: breastfed ones.
⩥ Why do people practice pill splitting.
Answer: The amount of money for the pill
⩥ While conducting a health history for an older adult patient with heart
failure, the patient tells the nurse, I have chronic constipation." The
nurse suspects this gastrointestinal complaint is caused by which class of
drugs?.
Answer: Calcium channel blockers
PROCESS 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ active transport.
Answer: the movement of materials through a cell membrane using
energy
⩥ Diffusion.
Answer: passive movement of a substance between diffrent tissues from
areas of higher concentration
⩥ neonate.
Answer: pertaining to a person younger than 1 month of age; newborn
infant
⩥ older adult.
Answer: pertaining to a person who is 65 years of age or older
⩥ pediatric.
Answer: pertaining to a person who is 12 years of age or younger
,⩥ Polypharmacy.
Answer: The use of many different drugs concurrently in treating a
patient, who often has several health problems.
⩥ Greatest danger of drug induced developmental defects.
Answer: First trimester of pregnancy
⩥ Safety and Potential harm of drug therapy during pregnacy can be
broadly broken down into 3 areas:.
Answer: Drug properties, Fetal gestation, maternal factors
⩥ Drug properties that impact drug transfer to the fetus include:.
Answer: Drug'c chemistry, dosage, and concurrently administered drugs.
⩥ Gestation age is important in pharmacology because.
Answer: it determines when the drug can most easily cross the placenta
and into the fetus.
⩥ The greatest percentage of maternally absorbed drugs is during.
Answer: the last trimester
⩥ Any change in the mothers ________ can change the amount of drug
in which the fetus can get exposed to.
, Answer: phyiology
⩥ exposure to the fetus to drugs is most detrimental in the ________
trimester, it is more likely during the _________.
Answer: first, last
⩥ When does a drug outweigh the risk in pregnacy?.
Answer: Hypertension, epilepsy, diabetes, and infection
⩥ look at chart.
Answer:
⩥ What infants are at exposure from drugs consumed my mother.
Answer: breastfed ones.
⩥ Why do people practice pill splitting.
Answer: The amount of money for the pill
⩥ While conducting a health history for an older adult patient with heart
failure, the patient tells the nurse, I have chronic constipation." The
nurse suspects this gastrointestinal complaint is caused by which class of
drugs?.
Answer: Calcium channel blockers
