Pharmacology for Nurses-A Pathophysiologic Approach,
7th Edition (Adams, 2020), Chapters 1 - 50
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Chapter 1 Introduction to
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Pharmacology
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1) A nurse is reviewing key events in the history of
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pharmacology with a student nurse.Which student comment
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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 z s z s z s z s z s z s z s z s z s z s
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4. "Pharmacologists began synthesizing drugs in the laboratory z s z s z s z s z s z s
in the nineteenthhjcentury."
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1. Some early researchers, like Friedrich Serturner, used
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themselves as testsubjects.
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2. An early goal of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
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3. Initial drugs isolated from complex mixtures included
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morphine, colchicine,hjcurare, and cocaine, but not
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penicillin. z s
4. By the twentieth century, pharmacologists could synthesize
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drugs in thehjlaboratory.
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Client Need/Sub: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral
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Therapies Standards: QSEN Competencies: I.A.1 Integrate understanding
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of multiple dimensions of patient-centered care: patient/family/community
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preferences, values; coordination and integration of care; information,
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communication, and education; physical comfort and emotional support;
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involvement of family and friends; and transition and continuity.
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| AACN Essential Competencies: I.7 Integrate the knowledge and
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methods of a variety ofdisciplines to inform decision making. | NLN
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Competencies: Knowledge and Science: Integration of knowledge from
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nursing and other disciplines. | Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing
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Process: Evaluation
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Learning Outcome: 1-1 Identify key events in the history of
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pharmacology. MNL Learning Outcome: 1.1 Examine the
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relationship between medicine andpharmacology.
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2) A student nurse asks a nursing instructor why anatomy and
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physiology as well ashjmicrobiology are required courses when the
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student only wants to learn about pharmacology. What is the
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best response by the instructor?
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1. "Because pharmacology is an outgrowth of those subjects." z s z s z s z s z s z s z s
2. "You must learn all, since all of those subjects are part of the
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