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ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY QUIZZES Bank

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ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY QUIZZES The listed statements is true about the prescribing practices of doctors? Antibiotic treatment remain in the top five classifications of treatment prescribed. Older doctors tend to prescribe less appropriate treatment than younger doctors. The dominant form of medicine information used by secondary care doctors continues to be that provided by pharmaceutical companies. Most doctors rely on a “therapeutic armamentarium” that consists of less than 100 medicine preparations per physician. Even though most doctors claim to place little scale on medicine advertisements, pharmaceutical representatives, and sick person preference and state that they rely on academic sources for medicine information, a study showed that commercial rather than scientific sources of medicine information dominated their medicine information materials. Younger doctors tend to prescribe fewer and less appropriate medicines. Antibiotics have dropped out of the top five classifications of medicines prescribed. Most doctors have a therapeutic armamentarium of about 144 medicines. A secondary care NP recommends an over-the-counter drugs for a sick person who has acid reflux. When teaching the sick person about this medicine, the NP would tell the sick person: not to worry about taking this medicine with any other treatment . that over-the-counter acid reflux treatment are generally safe to take with other treatment . Question 1 0 / 0 points Question 3 0 / 0 pts Question 4 0 / 0 pts to take the dose recommended by the manufacturer. to avoid taking other medicines that cause sedation while taking this medicine. Because sick persons often increase over-the-counter medicine doses themselves, it is important to reinforce the need to follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for dosing. As with any medicine,interactions may occur with other treatment . Antacids do not cause sedation, so sick persons neednot be cautioned to avoid other sedating treatment . A female who has been taking a COCP for 2 months tells the secondary care NP that she has hadseveral headaches, breakthrough bleeding, and nausea. The NP would counsel the female: that these effects will likely decrease in another month. to change to a progestin-only pill. to stop taking the COCP immediately. to use a backup form of contraception. Breakthrough bleeding, nausea, and headaches are common on the first 3 months of therapy and would improve without intervention. Progestin-only pills are used for lactating women only. Prolonged bleeding and severe headache would warrant discontinu

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