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NSG 6005 Week 2 Knowledge Check with Answers

1. Patient education regarding prescribed medication includes:
2. Patients with psychiatric illnesses have adherence rates to their drug regimen between 35% and 60%. To improve adherence in this population, prescribe drugs:
3. A twenty-four-year-old male received multiple fractures in a motor vehicle accident that required significant amounts of opioid medication to treat his pain. He is at risk for Type __ ADR when he no longer requires the opioids.
4. An advantage of prescribing a sublingual medication is that the medication is:
5. The time required for the amount of drug in the body to decrease by 50% is called:
6. The first step in the prescribing process according to the World Health Organization is:
7. The type of ADR that is the result of an …..but otherwise normal pharmacological action of a drug …in the usual therapeutic doses is:
8. Pharmacokinetic factors that affect prescribing include:
9. The role of the nurse practitioner in the use of herbal medication is to:
10. Drugs that have a significant first-pass effect:
11. Infants and young children are at higher risk of ADRs due to:
12. Steady state is:
13. Which one of the following statements about bioavailability is true?
14. Genetic polymorphisms account for differences in metabolism, including:
15. Nonadherence is especially common in drugs that treat asymptomatic conditions, such as hypertension. One way to reduce the likelihood of nonadherence to these drugs is to prescribe a drug that:
16. Warfarin resistance may be seen in patients with VCORC1 mutation, leading to nsg 6005 week 2 quiz
17. Herbs and supplements are …… for safety by the FDA.
18. A cytotoxic hypersensitivity reaction
19. Carbamazepine has a black box warning recommending testing for the HLA-B*1502 allele in patients with Asian ancestry prior to starting therapy due to:
20. A patient’s nutritional intake and lab work reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is critical to prescribing because: