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NURS 200 Exam – Questions With Complete Answers

What is therapy? Right Ans - treatment of an illness or disability

How to assess nutritional status Right Ans - - anthropometry
- considerations around weight
- lab tests

Nitrogen Balance Right Ans - Used to estimate protein requirements

Sources of nitrogen are protein

Nitrogen Balance is the nitrogen balance- nitrogen loss

Adults should have zero balance

Growing infants, children, adolescents, pregnant women and those recovering
from illness should have a positive nitrogen status.

Negative nitrogen balance means the amlount of nitrogen excreted is higher
then the amount injested often associated with malnutrition and other
conditions like

Output is calculated by a 24 hour analysis of urinary urea nitrogen level

What are sources of nitrogen Right Ans -

What is included in dietary assessment Right Ans - How do you track the
patients intake

24 hour recall

Food frequency

Food record

Direct Observation

,What is usual/ideal body weight Right Ans - An IBW provides a estimate of
what a person should weigh and rapid weight gain would indicate fluid shifts.

How do calculate BMI Right Ans - BMI is a person's weight in kilograms
divided by the square of height in meters.

What is BMI Right Ans - A valid measurement of weight in relation to
health but does not differentiate between excess fat or muscle or bone.

BMI Formula Right Ans - Formula: weight (kg) / [height (m)]2

With the metric system, the formula for BMI is weight in kilograms divided by
height in meters squared.

Because height is commonly measured in centimeters, divide height in
centimeters by 100 to obtain height in meters.

BMI under 18.5 is considered Right Ans - underweight

BMI between 18.5- 24.9 considered Right Ans - Normal

BMI between 25.0 - 29.9 considered Right Ans - Oveweight

BMI under 30.0 is considered Right Ans - Obese

Diet Drug interactions can be Right Ans - Reduce appetite

Increase appetite and weight gain

Alter absorption, metabolism, and excretion of nutrients

Some interactions can become toxic

Drugs- The side effects Right Ans - Induce N+V
Causes diarrhea/constipation

Alter taste sensations

,Suppress appetite

Dry the mouth

Cause inflammation and lesions in the mouth

Sedate the patient

Drug effects on absorption in the body Right Ans - Stomach Emptying Rate
- Meals delay absorption
- Empty stomach enhances absorption

Stomach Acidity
- Some drugs need an acidic environment
-Others may need an enteric coating

Interactions between Drugs and Dietary Components
- Some foods can bind to drugs and decrease absorption
- Calcium can bind to some antibiotics reducing absorption or both

What effects does Vitamin K rich foods have on drugs Right Ans - It
weakens blood thinners

What effects does Grapejuice have on drugs Right Ans - Increases blood
concentrations of some drugs

Cautions same for tangelos and Seville (sour) oranges

What herbs enhance blood thinners Right Ans - St.John's wort

Garlic

Ginseng

Dong quai

Danshen
Others

, What can cause weight gain Right Ans - Fluid overload

How much weight loss suggests malnutrition Right Ans - more tan 2
percent within 1 week, or over 5 percent over one month.

Dietary effects on drug excretion Right Ans - Inadequate excretion of
medications can cause toxicity

Excessive losses of medications can reduce the therapeutic effect

Urine acidity can affect drug excretion

Tyramine mixed with MOA inhibitor can be Right Ans - fatal

What is a drug Right Ans - Any chemical hat affects the physiological
process of a living organism

Pharmaceutics Right Ans - How dosage forms influence pharmacokinetics
and pharmacodynamics

Pharmacokinetics Right Ans - what the body does to the drug

w Right Ans -

The more clinically focused arm of pharmacology is_________________, the study
of drug actions when implementing drug therapy on specific clinical
indications to prevent and treat disease. Right Ans - Pharmacotherapeutics

_____________, specific to pharmacology, seeks to study the adverse effects of
drugs on living organisms. Right Ans - Toxicology

How are drugs classified Right Ans - Therapeutic and Chemical action

What is a prototype drug Right Ans - One that is well understood
Has a known mechanism of action and known adverse effects
is used to represent and compare other drugs in same pharmacological class
Will be used for you to concentrate on drug class prototypes when you study

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