PHARMACOLOGY PRELIM EXAM

🔘 A drug is defined as?

A. Any chemical sold in a Pharmacy

✅B. Any chemical substance used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
C. Any chemical substance used in humans for therapeutic purposes
D. Any synthetic chemical substance used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
E. None of the answers are correct

🔘 A child is admitted with a serious infection. After two days of antibiotics, he is severely
neutropenic (lower-than-normal levels of neutrophils in the blood). The physician orders
granulocyte transfusions for the next four days. The mother asks the nurse why? The nurse
responds:
A. "This is the only treatment left to offer the child."
B. "This therapy is fast and reliable in treating infections in children."
C. "The physician will have to explain his rationale to you."

✅D. "Granulocyte transfusions replenish the low white blood cells until the body can
produce its own."

🔘 A patient is to receive a blood transfusion, but she is worrying that she might acquire blood
infection. As a nurse how will you respond to the patient?
A. You are in the hospital you are safe here.

✅B. We did the necessary test to make sure that the blood is free from any blood infection.
C. We always give our 100% to our patients.
D. There's a low percentage that you might acquire blood borne disease in this blood.

🔘 Mandy, a patient calls the clinic today because he is having pain in both of his legs after taking
the medication given by the Doctor. You instruct him to:
A. Stop taking the drug and make an appointment to be seen next week.
B. Continue taking the drug and make an appointment to be seen next week.

✅C. Stop taking the drug and come to the clinic to be seen today.
D. Walk for at least 30 minutes and call if symptoms continue.

🔘 While giving a medication you found out that 2 of the drugs that you will give to the patients
does not have medication card. What will be the appropriate action in this scenario?
A. Still give the medication and closely monitor the patient

✅B. Discard the medication and explain what happened to your senior nurse
C. Skip the medication
D. Discard the medication and pretend nothing happened

🔘 A patient is complaining about the taste of his medication. What will be your nursing
management?

✅A. Offer candy after drinking the medication

B. Advise the patient to drink soda or juice to counter the taste of his medication

✅C. Set patient expectation that most of the drugs are made of chemical the reason why it
does not taste good.
D. Advise the patient no to mind the taste of his medication.

🔘 A nurse is preparing to administer a medication to a 13-year-old client. The nurse follows the
six rights of medication administration for a pediatric client. After checking for the right client, the
right dose, the right drug, the right time, and the right route, what is the final item the nurse must
check for this client?
A. The right age
B. The right strength

✅C. The right documentation

D. The right label

🔘 Nurses deal with pharmacotherapeutics, or clinical pharmacology which is the:

A. Study of how a drug affects a biological system and how the body responds to the drug.
B. Study or science of drugs

✅C. Branch of pharmacology that uses drugs to treat, prevent, and diagnose disease
D. All of the above

🔘 The nurse is in a unique position regarding drug therapy because nursing responsibilities
include the following:
A. Prescribing drugs

✅B. Assessing drug effects

✅C. Intervening to make the drug regimen more tolerable

✅D. Providing patient teaching about drugs and the drug regimen
🔘 Drugs that made of Inorganic chemical substance

✅A. Iron sulphate

✅B. Magnesium sulphate

✅C. Ferrous Sulphate

✅D. Sulphur

🔘 Omeprazole is an example of:

✅A. Drug acting the GIT

B. Drug acting the CVS
C. Drug acting the CNS
D. Drug acting the Urinary System

🔘 Bromhexine HCL

✅A. Drug acting for the respiratory system

B. Anti-cough

✅C. Mucolytic

✅D. Expectorant

🔘 Clonidine is an example of:

A. Anti-emetics
B. Antipyretic

✅C. Antihypertensive
D. Anticonvulsant

🔘 Antimicrobial agents:

✅A. Macrolides

✅B. Tetracycline
C. Verapamil

✅D. Quinolone
🔘 Chanel Blockers:

✅A. Nifedipine

✅B. Verapamil
C. Lanolin
D. Tannic Acid

🔘 Silver Nitrate
A. Emollient

✅B. Caustics
C. Demulcent
D. Inhaler

🔘 Provide tepid sponge bath to the patient to lower down the body temperature is an example of
what nursing responsibilities?
A. To take action to alleviate unavoidable side effects
B. To observe and assess the patient so that medical and nursing decisions can be made

✅C. To provide nursing care to help reduce, or obviate, the need for drug therapy
D. To follow recognized procedures for the control of medicines and pharmaceutical products

🔘 Asking patient name and DOB is what nursing responsibilities before giving medication?

✅A. To ensure that the correct dosage is given at the correct time and by the correct route,
observing any special requirements
B. To observe/report any side effects and consequences of drug interactions
C. To take action to alleviate unavoidable side effects
D. To observe and assess the patient so that medical and nursing decisions can be made

🔘 The following can be source of drugs except:

A. Animals
B. Plants
C. Metals

✅D. Minerals
🔘 The following are some of the reasons on why nurses studied Pharmacology except:

✅A. Nurses recommend and prescribe over the counter drugs

B. Nurses asses effect of medications
C. Nurses discuss medications to their patients

✅D. Nurses give alternative way of treatment

🔘 The drug's registered trademark, which indicates that its commercial use and is restricted the
owner of the patent for the drug the patent owner is usually the manufacturer of the drug.

✅A. Trade Name

✅B. Brand Name

C. Generic Name
D. Chemical Name

🔘 Drugs derive from natural sources except:

A. Atropine
B. Insulin
C. Penicillin

✅D. Doxycycline

🔘 The generic name of a drug is:

A. the name assigned to the drug by the pharmaceutical company developing it.
B. the chemical name of the drug based on its chemical structure.

✅C. the original name assigned to the drug at the beginning of the evaluation process.
D. the name that is often used in advertising campaigns.

🔘 When giving medication, a nurse should:

✅A. Check the patient vital signs if needed.

✅B. Stay on the patient side to assess any adverse reactions

✅C. Ensure patient safety if necessary

✅D. Discuss the medication to the patient

🔘 After injecting the antibiotic to the patient nurse should do the following:

✅A. Proper documentation

✅B. Assess any adverse reaction

✅C. Increase the IV drips for better absorption of the medication

✅D. Check the IV insertion for possible phlebitis