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Pathopharmocology Proctored Exam (Samuel Merit University) is a nursing-school practice exam with 52 questions. It is written for nursing students preparing for this course exam and for NCLEX-style review. Every question has its own page showing the full stem, all answer options, the correct answer, and a written rationale explaining why each option is right or wrong.
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Start Practice ExamWhich are effective ways to help prevent medication errors? Select All That Apply
After suffering a heart attack, a middle-aged man is counseled to attend physical therapy. This is an example of:
A patient has been exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but is not yet demonstrating signs of this disease. This stage of illness is called the ______ stage.
A nursing student is preparing to give a medication that has a boxed warning. The student asks the nurse what this means. What will the nurse explain about boxed warnings?
A 52-year-old male suffered a myocardial infarction secondary to atherosclerosis and ischemia. Once oxygen returned to the damaged heart, reperfusion injury occurred as a result of:
What is an example of a risk factor in a patient with a heart attack?
A patient is taking an inducer medication. The provider added a new medication. What is the effect of the inducer medication on the newly added medication?
An obese diabetic teen is given a prescription for a low-calorie diet and exercise program. This is an example of:
A woman undergoes a mammogram test for cancer screening. This is an example of:
A 17-year-old college-bound student receives a vaccine against an organism that causes meningitis. This is an example of:
A nursing student asks the nurse why more is not known about the teratogenic effects of maternal medication ingestion during pregnancy. Which response by the nurse is correct?
Sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation can change these body functions except:
A patient receives a drug that has a narrow therapeutic range. The nurse administering this medication will expect to do what?
Medication A has a half-life of 3 hours. If the nurse administers a single dose of 400 mg of medication A, how much will excrete from the patient’s body after 12 hours?
A nurse is teaching a group of women about medications. The women want to know why so many drugs have unpredictable effects in women. The nurse will tell them that:
A patient asks a nurse why a friend who is taking the same drug responds differently to that drug. The nurse knows that the most common variation in drug response is due to differences in each patient
Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces:
The nurse is teaching nursing students about the concept of medications’ half-life. The nurse asks students: If we administer 10 mg of medication X, which has a half-life of one day, to the patient, h
A patient has a heart attack that leads to progressive cell injury that causes cell death with severe cell swelling and breakdown of organelles and release of cellular debris. What term would the nurs
A patient is taking a drug that has known toxic side effects. What will the nurse do?
Sodium and water accumulation in an injured cell are a direct result of:
What is the process by which a drug is transported by circulating body fluids to receptor sites?
What is the cause of hydropic swelling?
A patient is given a drug for the first time and develops shortness of breath. The patient’s heart rate is 76 beats per minute, the respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute, and the blood pressure is
What is the process that results in cellular death?