Exam 1: Orientation to Pharmacology

Before administering a medication, what does the nurse need to know to evaluate how individual patient variability might affect the patient's response to the medication?

What is a desired outcome when a drug is described as easy to administer?

What are the properties of an ideal drug?

The nurse is teaching a patient how a medication works to treat an illness. To do this, the nurse will rely on knowledge of which topic?

A patient tells the nurse that an analgesic he will begin taking may cause drowsiness and will decrease pain up to 4 hours at a time. Based on this understanding of the drug's effects by the patient, the nurse will anticipate which outcome?