Pharm chapter 16 stuvia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

he nurse is preparing to administer a drug and learns that it is an indirect-acting cholinergic agonist. The nurse understands that this drug a. acts on muscarinic receptors. b. acts on nicotinic receptors. c. inhibits cholinesterase. d. inhibits cholinergic receptors. - ANSWER-C Rational: Agents that inhibit cholinesterase, which is the enzyme that destroys acetylcholine, indirectly enhance the actions of acetylcholine. A nursing student asks why a direct-acting cholinergic agonist...