Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers 4th Edition by Teri Moser Woo - Test Bank
Chapter 2. Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. A patient’s nutritional intake and laboratory results reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is critical to prescribing because:
1. |
Distribution of drugs to target tissue may be affected. |
2. |
The solubility of the drug will not match the site of absorption. |
3. |
There will be less free drug available to generate an effect. |
4. |
Drugs bound to albumin are readily excreted by the kidneys. |
____ 2. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect:
1. |
Must be given by the enteral (oral) route only |
2. |
Bypass the hepatic circulation |
3. |
Are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if any desired action |
4. |
Are converted by the liver to more active and fat-soluble forms |
____ 3. The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be the:
1. |
Kidneys |
2. |
Lungs |
3. |
Bile and feces |
4. |
Skin |
____ 4. Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed intramuscularly (IM) to create a storage reservoir of the drug. Storage reservoirs:
1. |
Assure that the drug will reach its intended target tissue |
2. |
Are the reason for giving loading doses |
3. |
Increase the length of time a drug is available and active |
4. |
Are most common in collagen tissues |
____ 5. The NP chooses to give cephalexin every 8 hours based on knowledge of the drug’s:
1. |
Propensity to go to the target receptor |
2. |
Biological half-life |
3. |
Pharmacodynamics |
4. |
Safety and side effects |
____ 6. Azithromycin dosing requires that the first day’s dosage be twice those of the other 4 days of the prescription. This is considered a loading dose. A loading dose:
1. |
Rapidly achieves drug levels in the therapeutic range |
2. |
Requires four- to five-half-lives to attain |
3. |
Is influenced by renal function |
4. |
Is directly related to the drug circulating to the target tissues |
____ 7. The point in time on the drug concentration curve that indicates the first sign of a