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NR 565 PHARM MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR BEST PREPARETION AND PERFORMANCE

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NR 565 PHARM MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR BEST PREPARETION AND PERFORMANCE Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology 1. A patient’s nutritional intake and laboratory result... s reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is critical to prescribing because: Distribution of drugs to target tissue may be affected. 2. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect: Are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action 3.The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be the: Lungs 4. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed intramuscularly (IM) to create a storage reservoir Increase the length of time a drug is available and active 5. The NP chooses to give cephalexin every 8 hours based on knowledge of the drug’s: Biological half-life 6. Azithromycin dosing requires that the first day’s dosage be twice those of the other 4 days of the prescription. This is considered a loading dose. A loading dose: Rapidly achieves drug levels in the therapeutic range 7. The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a therapeutic effect is the: Onset of action 8. Phenytoin requires that a trough level be drawn. Peak and trough levels are done: To determine if a drug is in the therapeutic range 9. A laboratory result indicates that the peak level for a drug is above the minimum toxic concentration. This means that the: Concentration will produce an adverse response 10. Drugs that are receptor agonists may demonstrate what property? Desensitization or downregulation with continuous use 11. Drugs that are receptor antagonists, such as beta blockers, may cause: An e [Show More]

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