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Which schedule drugs can APRNs prescribe? → II-V Who determines and regulates prescriptive authority? → State Board of Nursing How does limited prescriptive authority impact patients within the healthcare system? → Longer wait times to sign a prescription → Limit practitioners that ar...

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NR565- Advance Pharmacology
Questions and Correct Answers the Latest
Update and Recommended Version
Which schedule drugs can APRNs prescribe?


→ II-V


Who determines and regulates prescriptive authority?

→ State Board of Nursing


How does limited prescriptive authority impact patients within the healthcare system?

→ Longer wait times to sign a prescription
→ Limit practitioners that are needed in rural areas
→ Unequal relationships between providers.
→ Independent practitioners= more patients being seen= lessens the patient/provider
load


What are the key responsibilities of prescribing?

→ Safe and competent practice
→ Understanding of the drugs, reactions, and pharmacology
→ Be aware of the age group you are prescribing to


What should be used to make prescribing decisions?


→ Documented provider-patient relationship
→ Not prescribing for family or friends
→ Documenting a thorough H&P, including discussions with the patient, and drug
monitoring/titrating.
→ Cost, guidelines, availability, interactions, side effects, allergies, hepatic and renal
function, need for monitoring, and special populations


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Be familiar with pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes of older adults and how that

would translate to baseline information needed to prescribe.

→ increase glomerular filtration rate leads to increase drug excretion
→ increase hepatic metabolism
→ decrease tone and motility of bowel
→ increase drug absorption


Beer's Criteria- What is it and Why is it important

→ Recommendations of medications inappropriate for elderly (65 and older)
→ Prevents adverse drug reactions


Impacts/outcomes of polypharmacy

→ -increase risk for medication interactions


CYP450 inhibitors

o Examples

o What do they do?

o What do they cause if not used correctly? (aka: What would the patient experience?)

→ inhibit metabolism, increase blood levels of medications
→ Examples
→ Valproate, isoniazid, sulfonamides, amiodarone, chloramphenicol, ketoconazole,
grapefruit juice, quinidine
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Examples of CYP450 inducers

o Examples



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o What do they do?

o What do they cause if not used correctly? (aka: What would the patient experience?)


→ Speed up metabolism of drugs (drug is cleared faster), drug has lesser effect
(decrease blood levels of drug)
→ Examples
→ Barbituates, St John wort, Carbamazepine, rifampin, alcohol, phenytoin, griseofulvin,
phenobarbital, sulfonylureas
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What happens when someone has a poor metabolism phenotype?


→ medications metabolized slower, medication might not work or put them at risk for
side-effects


What does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulate when it comes to medications?

→ Whether the drug is safe, effective, and benefits of a drug outweigh the risks


Reasons for medication non-adherence




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