Exam 4: Foundations and Principles of Pharmacology

A patient asks why she needs to report all the over-the-counter medications she takes to her health care provider.Which represents the best response to this inquiry?

Drug metabolites can be excreted from the body in which of the following?

What can affect the half-life of a drug?

The patient tells the nurse that he gets a headache after taking an antihypertensive medication.What is the explanation for this?

Diffusion is one of the mechanisms involved in absorption of medications.What is an effective way for the nurse to explain this mechanism of absorption to a patient?

Chemical names are different from trade or brand names because chemical names describe which of the following?

What should the nurse do when writing the trade and generic name of a drug?

A patient is speaking with the nurse and is concerned about his antihypertensive medication.He tells the nurse that the medication makes him very sleepy.What should be the nurse's response?

Propranolol (Inderal)is eliminated almost entirely via metabolism by the liver after oral administration.This necessitates giving much larger doses by mouth as compared to intravenous (IV)administration.For this reason,propranolol is a good example of a drug that exhibits which effect?

A patient is on a cardiac medication and has been drinking alcohol every evening while watching television.On a visit to the clinic,the patient tells the nurse this information and asks if this is all right.What should be the nurse's response?

A drug's trade name is used in advertisements and marketing and is often easy to remember.Which drug names are trade names? (Select all that apply.)

Medications have both trade and generic names.Which two medication names represent the same drug?

Which effect takes place when one drug interferes with the action of another drug?

A nurse is administering a patient's medication by mouth.The nurse knows that for this medication to be utilized by the body,diffusion,filtration,and osmosis must take place.Which mechanism is the first to be involved in that process?

Which is always true regarding the generic name for a drug?

Vitamin C is a water-soluble medication that is dissolved,filtered,and excreted out of the body through which organ(s)?

Which explanation by the nurse explains to a patient that water should be taken with a tablet?

What is the process by which molecules move from a region of higher concentration to one of lower concentration?

Which is the most life-threatening type of medication reaction?

The nurse is taking a drug history from a patient about her medication,and the patient tells the nurse that the one aspirin she takes a day gives her stomach pain.The patient is having which kind of reaction?