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PORTAGE NUR 251 - PHARMACOLOGY - TEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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- NUR 251
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PORTAGE NUR 251 - PHARMACOLOGY - TEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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EstudyPORTAGE NUR 251 - PHARMACOLOGY - TEST 1 EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Here are the numbered and reformatted questions with multiple-choice options:
### 1. What is the study of chemicals that change the function of living organisms called?
- A) Pharmacokinetics
- B) Pharmacology
- C) Toxicology
- D) Pharmacodynamics
**Answer: B) Pharmacology**
### 2. Drugs can be used for which of the following purposes?
- A) Prevent disease
- B) Diagnose disease
- C) Treat symptoms
- D) All of the above
**Answer: D) All of the above**
### 3. What are some effects drugs have on the body?
- A) Only therapeutic effects
- B) Therapeutic, side, adverse, and toxic effects
- C) Only side effects
- D) Only adverse effects
**Answer: B) Therapeutic, side, adverse, and toxic effects**
### 4. What is the desired drug effect to relieve a condition or symptom called?
- A) Side effect
- B) Adverse effect
- C) Therapeutic effect
- D) Toxic effect
**Answer: C) Therapeutic effect**
### 5. What are side effects?
- A) Effects that are usually harmful
- B) Effects other than the therapeutic effect but usually not harmful
- C) Toxic effects
- D) Desired effects
**Answer: B) Effects other than the therapeutic effect but usually not harmful**
### 6. What are adverse effects?
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- A) Effects that are desired
- B) Effects that are potentially harmful
- C) Mild side effects
- D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Effects that are potentially harmful**
### 7. What are toxic effects?
- A) Harmless drug effects
- B) Effects implying drug poisoning and can be harmful
- C) Side effects
- D) Desired drug effects
**Answer: B) Effects implying drug poisoning and can be harmful**
### 8. What describes how a drug produces its effects?
- A) Mechanism of action
- B) Onset of action
- C) Duration of action
- D) Receptor binding
**Answer: A) Mechanism of action**
### 9. What is the location where a drug produces its therapeutic effect?
- A) Side effect site
- B) Target site of action
- C) Toxic site
- D) Delayed-release site
**Answer: B) Target site of action**
### 10. What are receptors?
- A) Drug-binding sites that cause side effects
- B) Specific cellular structures a drug binds to produce a physiological effect
- C) Proteins that block drug action
- D) Unwanted reaction sites
**Answer: B) Specific cellular structures a drug binds to produce a physiological effect**
### 11. What is an agonist receptor?
- A) It blocks drug effects
- B) It activates a physiological response or drug effect
- C) It has no effect
- D) It is the same as an antagonist receptor
**Answer: B) It activates a physiological response or drug effect**
### 12. What is an antagonist receptor?
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- A) It enhances other drug effects
- B) It prevents other substances from producing a drug effect
- C) It acts the same as an agonist receptor
- D) It has no role in drug action
**Answer: B) It prevents other substances from producing a drug effect**
### 13. What describes the basic principle that the response to a drug depends on the amount given?
- A) Onset of action
- B) Dose-dependent relationship
- C) Duration of action
- D) Side effect
**Answer: B) Dose-dependent relationship**
### 14. What is the term for the time from drug administration to the first observable effect?
- A) Duration of action
- B) Onset of action
- C) Mechanism of action
- D) Delayed action
**Answer: B) Onset of action**
### 15. What is the term for how long a drug continues to produce its effect?
- A) Onset of action
- B) Duration of action
- C) Mechanism of action
- D) Dose-response duration
**Answer: B) Duration of action**
### 16. Drug names include all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Chemical name
- B) Molecular name
- C) Generic name
- D) Trade name
**Answer: B) Molecular name**
### 17. Drugs can be classified based on:
- A) Only their structure
- B) Structure and use
- C) Only their use
- D) Use and side effects
**Answer: B) Structure and use**
### 18. What are aqueous preparations?
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- A) Powdered drugs
- B) Syrups with water and sugar
- C) Gelatin capsules
- D) Delayed-release products
**Answer: B) Syrups with water and sugar**
### 19. What are tablets?
- A) Drugs compressed into a form for swallowing
- B) Drugs mixed with sugar for faster absorption
- C) Delayed-release drugs
- D) Drugs applied to the skin
**Answer: A) Drugs compressed into a form for swallowing**
### 20. What are troches or lozenges?
- A) Tablets that dissolve in the stomach
- B) Flattened tablets that dissolve in the mouth
- C) Drugs absorbed through the skin
- D) Gelatin shells with drugs inside
**Answer: B) Flattened tablets that dissolve in the mouth**
### 21. What are capsules?
- A) Gelatin shells filled with powder or liquid medication
- B) Solid drugs that dissolve in the mouth
- C) Liquid drugs
- D) Delayed-release tablets
**Answer: A) Gelatin shells filled with powder or liquid medication**
### 22. What are delayed-release products?
- A) Drugs absorbed through the skin
- B) Tablets or capsules treated with a coating to release drugs over time
- C) Fast-acting drugs
- D) Drugs that dissolve immediately
**Answer: B) Tablets or capsules treated with a coating to release drugs over time**
### 23. What are enteric-coated products?
- A) Tablets that dissolve quickly
- B) Tablets coated to prevent stomach dissolution
- C) Delayed-release drugs
- D) Drugs applied to the skin
**Answer: B) Tablets coated to prevent stomach dissolution**
### 24. What are suppositories?
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