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Pharmacology Quiz: Test Your Knowledge!

Challenge your understanding of pharmacology with this engaging quiz designed for health care professionals and students alike. With 10 carefully crafted questions covering critical aspects of medication administration, patient care, and drug interactions, this quiz offers a unique opportunity to enhance your knowledge.

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Focus on clinically relevant scenarios
Ideal for self-assessment and learning

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by CaringNurse321

A health care professional is talking to a patient about self-injecting regular insulin (Humulin). The health care profession should tell the patient to rotate the injection sites to prevent which of the following?

Rapid Absorption

Intradermal Injection

Injection Pain

Lipohypertrophy

After administering digoxin, what assessment finding would indicate to the nurse that the drug was having the desired effect?

Decreased weight - Increased urinary output

Decrease urinary output

Decreased oxygen saturation

Decreased sleep

Extreme caution would be necessary with the use of gentamicin in which client?

A client who is morbidity obese and who has primary hypertension

A client who has an atrioventricular block and has low heart rate

A client who has bipolar disorder and who is on long term lithium therapy

A client who has chronic renal failure secondary to diabetes mellitus

A diabetic client was prescribed 1000mg of metformin twice a day. The only available metformin is 500mg/tablet. How many tablets should the nurse administer to the client per dose?

4 tablets

1 tablet

2 tablets

3 tablets

A client being assessed by the home care nurse of the appropriate use of her metered-dose inhalers. Instructions concerning which intervention will assist a client in the proper administration of metered-dose?

Exhaling immediately after administration

Administration of corticosteroid first

Pushing fluids

Use of spacer

What explanation should the nurse provide for why pregnancy is discouraged in women who are being treated for seizure disorders?

Antiepilepsy drugs are teratogenic

Antiepilepsy drugs decrease fertility

Seizure disorders are familial

Seizure disorders are generic

When developing a plan of care for the client receiving a glucocorticoid/steroid, what nursing diagnosis should be of highest priority?

Deficient fluid volume related to water retention

Imbalanced nutrition less than body requirements

Risk for infection related to immunosuppression

Risk for injury related to muscle weakness

The nurse is caring for a 35-year-old woman taking a beta-hydroxy-beta-methyglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor to lower serum lipid levels. When teaching the client about her medication, What primary teaching point will the nurse include in the teaching plan?

Inflammation about cholesterol-lowering diet

Need for frequent ophthalmic examination

Use a barrier contraceptives

Calling her doctor with my respiratory symptoms

A nurse administering an opioid medication should assess for what related side effect? Select all that apply.

Which food should the client avoid eating when prescribed phenelzine sulfates, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor?

Arise cookies and milk

Aged swiss cheese and bratwurst

Tortellini in cream sauce

Mashed potatoes and roast beef

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