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PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSING PRACTICE REVIEW |
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS| GRADE A| 100% CORRECT
(VERIFIED SOLUTIONS)- CHAMBERLAIN
1. Enzyme Interactions - ANS ✓A medication that blocks an enzyme, like
antihistamines block histamine enzymes
2. Agonist - ANS ✓Drug binds to a receptor, there is a response
3. Antagonist - ANS ✓Drug binds to a receptor, there is no response. The
drugs prevents the binding of agonists.
4. Competitive Antagonist - ANS ✓Drug competes with the agonist for
binding to the receptor. If it binds, there is no response
5. Non-competitive Antagonist - ANS ✓Drug combines with different parts
of a receptor and inactivates it, agonist then has no effect
6. Acute Therapy - ANS ✓Requires more intensive treatment; used for
critical/very sick patients.
Ex: giving nitro-glycerine for heart attack
7. Maintenance Therapy - ANS ✓Given to maintain a healthy state with a
chronic disease.
Ex: antihypertensive meds
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8. Supplemental Therapy - ANS ✓Supplies the body with something to
maintain normal function that the body lacks or cannot produce itself (ex:
Insulin)
9. Palliative Therapy - ANS ✓Therapy used to relieve symptoms, not cure a
disease. Usually with chronic, non-curable diseases.
Ex: morphine for hospice patient
10. Supportive Therapy - ANS ✓Maintains the integrity of the body
functions while the patient is recovering from illness or trauma. Ex:
provision of fluids and electrolytes to prevent dehydration in a patient
with influenza who is vomiting and has diarrhea
11. Prophylactic Therapy - ANS ✓Therapy given prior to infectious
signs to prevent the possibility of infection. It is preventative therapy
12. Empiric Therapy - ANS ✓The administration of antibiotics based
on the practitioner's judgment of the pathogens most likely to be causing
an apparent infection; it involves the presumptive treatment of an
infection to avoid treatment delay before specific culture information has
been obtained.
13. Contraindications - ANS ✓Any characteristic of a patient,
especially a disease state, that makes the use of a given medication
dangerous for the patient. It is important to assess for contraindications.
Ex: pregnancy, allergies, organ failure, etc
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14. Monitoring - ANS ✓Evaluating the clinical response of the patient
to the treatment. One must be familiar with a drugs intended therapeutic
action, and unintended but potentially adverse effects.
15. Therapeutic Index - ANS ✓The ratio between initial dose and legal
dose. If a drug has a low index, it is a critical drug.
16. Drug Concentration - ANS ✓The level of drug in the blood.
Especially for seizures, you need to maintain drug concentration levels.
17. Additive Effect - ANS ✓Drug interaction in which the effect of a
combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is equivalent to the
sum of the individual effects of the same drug given alone. 1+1=2
18. Synergistic Effect - ANS ✓Drug interaction in which the effect of a
combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is greater that the
sum of the individual effects the same drugs given alone. 1+1= >2
19. Antagonistic Effect - ANS ✓Drug interaction in which the effect of a
combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is less than the sum of
individual effects of the same drug given alone.
1+1=<2
20. Adverse Drug Reactions - ANS ✓Pharmacologic reactions,
including adverse effects.
21. Idiosyncratic Reaction - ANS ✓An abnormal and unexpected
response to a medication, not an allergic reaction, that is peculiar to an
individual patient
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NR 293/ NR293 EXAM 1: (NEW 2025/ 2026 UPDATE)
PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSING PRACTICE REVIEW |
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS| GRADE A| 100% CORRECT
(VERIFIED SOLUTIONS)- CHAMBERLAIN
1. Enzyme Interactions - ANS ✓A medication that blocks an enzyme, like
antihistamines block histamine enzymes
2. Agonist - ANS ✓Drug binds to a receptor, there is a response
3. Antagonist - ANS ✓Drug binds to a receptor, there is no response. The
drugs prevents the binding of agonists.
4. Competitive Antagonist - ANS ✓Drug competes with the agonist for
binding to the receptor. If it binds, there is no response
5. Non-competitive Antagonist - ANS ✓Drug combines with different parts
of a receptor and inactivates it, agonist then has no effect
6. Acute Therapy - ANS ✓Requires more intensive treatment; used for
critical/very sick patients.
Ex: giving nitro-glycerine for heart attack
7. Maintenance Therapy - ANS ✓Given to maintain a healthy state with a
chronic disease.
Ex: antihypertensive meds
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8. Supplemental Therapy - ANS ✓Supplies the body with something to
maintain normal function that the body lacks or cannot produce itself (ex:
Insulin)
9. Palliative Therapy - ANS ✓Therapy used to relieve symptoms, not cure a
disease. Usually with chronic, non-curable diseases.
Ex: morphine for hospice patient
10. Supportive Therapy - ANS ✓Maintains the integrity of the body
functions while the patient is recovering from illness or trauma. Ex:
provision of fluids and electrolytes to prevent dehydration in a patient
with influenza who is vomiting and has diarrhea
11. Prophylactic Therapy - ANS ✓Therapy given prior to infectious
signs to prevent the possibility of infection. It is preventative therapy
12. Empiric Therapy - ANS ✓The administration of antibiotics based
on the practitioner's judgment of the pathogens most likely to be causing
an apparent infection; it involves the presumptive treatment of an
infection to avoid treatment delay before specific culture information has
been obtained.
13. Contraindications - ANS ✓Any characteristic of a patient,
especially a disease state, that makes the use of a given medication
dangerous for the patient. It is important to assess for contraindications.
Ex: pregnancy, allergies, organ failure, etc
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14. Monitoring - ANS ✓Evaluating the clinical response of the patient
to the treatment. One must be familiar with a drugs intended therapeutic
action, and unintended but potentially adverse effects.
15. Therapeutic Index - ANS ✓The ratio between initial dose and legal
dose. If a drug has a low index, it is a critical drug.
16. Drug Concentration - ANS ✓The level of drug in the blood.
Especially for seizures, you need to maintain drug concentration levels.
17. Additive Effect - ANS ✓Drug interaction in which the effect of a
combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is equivalent to the
sum of the individual effects of the same drug given alone. 1+1=2
18. Synergistic Effect - ANS ✓Drug interaction in which the effect of a
combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is greater that the
sum of the individual effects the same drugs given alone. 1+1= >2
19. Antagonistic Effect - ANS ✓Drug interaction in which the effect of a
combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is less than the sum of
individual effects of the same drug given alone.
1+1=<2
20. Adverse Drug Reactions - ANS ✓Pharmacologic reactions,
including adverse effects.
21. Idiosyncratic Reaction - ANS ✓An abnormal and unexpected
response to a medication, not an allergic reaction, that is peculiar to an
individual patient
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