Test Bank - Focus on Nursing Pharmacology (8th Edition by Karch).verified

Document Content and Description Below

Test Bank - Focus on Nursing Pharmacology (8th Edition by Karch).verified Chapter 01 - Introduction to Drugs A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having a computed tom... ography(CT) scan. The nurse working on the oncology unit administers chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public Health Department, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to a 14-month-old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best describes the actions of all three nurses? Pharmacoeconomics Pharmacotherapeutics Pharmacodynamics Pharmacokinetics Ans: B Feedback: Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are involved with clinical pharmacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease. The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help diagnose a disease. The oncology nurse is administering a drug to help treat a disease. Pharmacoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug affects the body and pharmacokinetics is how the body acts on the body. A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as neededfor pain in a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware this drug has a high abuse potential. Under what category would morphine be classified? Schedule I Schedule II Schedule III Schedule IV Ans: B Feedback: Narcotics with a high abuse potential are classified as Schedule II drugs because of severe dependence liability. Schedule I drugs have high abuse potential and no accepted medical use. Schedule III drugs have a lesser abuse potential than II and an accepted medical use. Schedule IV drugs have low abuse potential and limited dependence liability. When involved in phase III drug evaluation studies, what responsibilities would the nurse have? [Show More]

Last updated: 6 months ago

Preview 1 out of 614 pages