Nurb 3150: Drug Therapy with Opiods
Study Guide
True or False: Opioid analgesics are drugs that prevent or relieve moderate to severe pain. - Answer-
true
Pain - Answer-- unpleasant sensory/emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue
damage
- personal/individual experience...
- respiratory depression, hypotension, nausea and vomiting
- pupil constriction
Opioids: GI Effects - Answer✔✔-- slow motility
- constipation
- bowel and biliary spasm
True or False: Most opioid analgesics are Schedule II drugs because they rarely lead to drug abuse or
dependence. - Answer✔✔-- False
- most opioid analgesics are Schedule II drugs because they may lead to drug abuse or dependence
Black Box Warnings - Answer✔✔-Present with all opioid analgesics because of potentially fatal adverse
effects and risk of drug abuse
Which analgesics have a black box warning? - Answer✔✔-- fentanyl, hydromorphone, and methadone
- oxycodone and oxymorphone
Why? - Answer✔✔-- these drugs have the highest potential for abuse
- highest risk of fatal overdoses because of respiratory depression
A patient with metastasized bone cancer has been on transdermal fentanyl patches for pain
management for 3 months. The patient tells the nurse, "My pain is becoming unbearable." The nurse is
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