Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who? - ANS The State Board of Nursing for Each State
What are the benefits of having an APRN prescriber? - ANS APRNs care for patients more holistically and include patients in making decisions regarding their care
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, Nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is regulated by who? - ANS The State Board
of Nursing for Each State
What are the benefits of having an APRN prescriber? - ANS APRNs care for patients
more holistically and include patients in making decisions regarding their care
What does clinical judgment in prescribing include? - ANS Factoring in the cost of the
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What is included in the criteria for choosing and effective drug for a disorder? - ANS
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Consulting nationally recognized guidelines for disease management
NP's thrive under the new health-care reform because of what? - ANS NP's have the
ability to control care cost and improve patient outcome
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Nutritional intake and lab results reflect hypoalbuminemia; why is this important for
prescribers? - ANS The Distribution of drugs to target tissues may be affected
Drugs that have an significant first-pass effect what? - ANS they are rapidly
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metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action
The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be? - ANS Lungs
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed IM to create a storage reservoir of
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the drug. What are storage reservoirs> - ANS Increased the length of time a drug is
available and active
Why is Cephalexin given every 8 hours? What knowledge of the drug does the NP
know? - ANS Half Life
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Azithromycin requires that the first day's doing be twice those of the other four day; This
is considered a loading does. What is a loading dose? - ANS Rapidly actives drug
levels in the therapeutic range
The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a
therapeutic effect is the: - ANS Onset of action
Phenytoin required that a trough level be drawn. When and why are peak and trough
levels are done - ANS To determine if a d rug is in the therapeutic range
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