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When providing drug therapy to a patient what is a responsibility of the nurse?
- A. Teaching the patient how to cope with the effects of the drug to ensure the best outcome
- B. Helping the patient analyze the physiological and pathological effects of drugs
- C. Warning the patient how most patients respond to the drug therapy
- D. Encouraging the patient to increase or decrease dosages
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Teaching patients how to manage drug effects promotes adherence and optimal outcomes, aligning with the nurse's educational role in drug therapy.
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Please select a correct statement:
- A. Steroids excreted in maximal amount in evening and night time - between 20-24 h
- B. Steroids maximal excretion is in morning time - between -4-8 h
- C. Steroids maximal secretion is in daytime- between -12-16 h
- D. Steroids decrease sensitivity of vessels and bronchus towards catecholamines
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Steroids peak in the morning (4-8 AM) due to circadian rhythm of cortisol secretion.
Which of the following is not a dose related reaction:
- A. Myocardial Irritation of Quinidine
- B. Hypoglycemia of tolbutamide
- C. Digitalis induced arrythmia
- D. Drug fever of sulpha
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Drug fever from sulfa is an idiosyncratic/hypersensitivity reaction, not dose-related.
The nurse is assessing a diabetic patient who has presented at the clinic reporting several hypoglycemic episodes during the past 3 weeks. The nurse questions the patient about the use of herbal or alternative therapies, suspecting what herbal remedy could cause the hypoglycemic episodes?
- A. St. John's wort
- B. Kava
- C. Fish oil
- D. Ginseng
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Ginseng is known to decrease blood sugar levels. If the patient used this in combination with his or her oral antidiabetic agent, diet, and exercise, his or her blood sugar could drop below therapeutic levels. St. John's wort interacts with many drugs, but not with antidiabetic agents. Kava is associated with liver toxicity. Fish oil has been associated with decreased coronary artery disease.
A nurse is working as a member of a research team involved in exploring the unique response to drugs each individual displays based on genetic make-up. What is this area of study called?
- A. Pharmacotherapeutics
- B. Pharmacodynamics
- C. Pharmacoeconomics
- D. Pharmacogenomics
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Pharmacogenomics is the area of study that includes mapping of the human genome. In the future, medical care and drug regimens may be personally designed based on a patients unique genetic make-up. Pharmacotherapeutics is the branch of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease. Pharmacodynamics involves how a drug affects the body. Pharmacoeconomics includes the costs involved in drug therapy.
All of the following adverse effects commonly occur in glucocorticoid therapy except:
- A. Osteoporosis
- B. Increased risk of infection
- C. Hypotension
- D. Emotional disturbances
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Glucocorticoids cause hypertension, not hypotension, due to mineralocorticoid effects and fluid retention.