NSG 6005 Week 2 Knowledge Check

NSG 6005 Week 2 Knowledge Check

1.Patient education regarding prescribed medication includes:

2. Patients with psychiatric illnesses have adherence rates to their drug regimen between 35% and 60%. To improve adherence in this population, prescribe drugs:

3. A twenty-four-year-old male received multiple fractures in a motor vehicle accident that required significant amounts of opioid medication to treat his pain. He is at risk for Type __ ADR when he no longer requires the opioids.

4. An advantage of prescribing a sublingual medication is that the medication is:

5. The time required for the amount of drug in the body to decrease by 50% is called:

6. The first step in the prescribing process according to the World Health Organization is:

7. The type of ADR that is the result of an unwanted but otherwise normal pharmacological action of a drug given in the usual therapeutic doses is:

8. Pharmacokinetic factors that affect prescribing include:

9. The role of the nurse practitioner in the use of herbal medication is to:

10. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect:

11. Infants and young children are at higher risk of ADRs due to:

12. Steady state is:

13. Which one of the following statements about bioavailability is true?

14. Genetic polymorphisms account for differences in metabolism, including:

15. Nonadherence is especially common in drugs that treat asymptomatic conditions, such as hypertension. One way to reduce the likelihood of nonadherence to these drugs is to prescribe a drug that:

16. Warfarin resistance may be seen in patients with VCORC1 mutation, leading to:

17. Herbs and supplements are tested for safety by the FDA.

18. A cytotoxic hypersensitivity reaction

19. Carbamazepine has a black box warning recommending testing for the HLA-B*1502 allele in patients with Asian ancestry prior to starting therapy due to:

20. A patient’s nutritional intake and lab work reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is critical to prescribing because: