TEST BANK For Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 15th Edition by Bertram G. Katzung, Verified Chapters 1 - 66, Complete Newest Version TEST BANK For Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 15th Edition by Bertram G. Katzung, Verified Chapters 1 - 66, Complete Newest Version TEST BANK For Basic and Clinical ...
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Nature of Drugs & Drug Development & Regulation
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1.
A nurse working in radiology administers iodine to a patient who is having
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a computed tomography (CT) scan. The nurse working on the oncology unit a
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dministers chemotherapy to patients who have cancer. At the Public Health D
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epartment, a nurse administers a measles-mumps-
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rubella (MMR) vaccine toa 14-month-
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old child as a routine immunization. Which branch of pharmacology best desc
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ribes the actions of all three nurses?
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A) Pharmacoeconomics
B) Pharmacotherapeutics
C) Pharmacodynamics
D) Pharmacokinetics
ANSWER: B
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Pharmacology is the study of the biologic effects of chemicals. Nurses are inv
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olved with clinical pharmacology or pharmacotherapeutics, which is a branch
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of pharmacology that deals with the uses of drugs to treat, prevent, and diagn
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ose disease. The radiology nurse is administering a drug to help diagnose a di
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sease. The oncology nurse is administering a drug to help treat adisease. Phar
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macoeconomics includes any costs involved in drug therapy. ec ec ec ec ec ec ec
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2.
A physician has ordered intramuscular (IM) injections of morphine, a narc
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otic, every 4 hours as needed for pain in a motor vehicle accident victim.The
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nurse is aware this drug has a high abuse potential. Under what categorywoul
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d morphine be classified?
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