Exam 1: NSG318 / NSG 318 (Latest
Update 2024 / 2025) Introduction to Pharmacology Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU
Question:
What do you document after administering a medication/drug?
Answer:
name of the drug dose route time and date nurse initials or signature
Question:
Who created the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2000?
Answer:
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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Question:
What are the two main things that are safety risks of medication administration?
Answer:
tablet splitting and buying drugs on the internet
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What is the FDA MedWatch Program?
Answer:
voluntary reporting system
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What is the first thing you think about when a medication error is made?
Answer:
the patients saftey! do not leave the patient
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define autonomy
Answer:
right to self-determination
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Question:
the Harrison Act
Answer:
increased record keeping for narcotics and requires a prescription for a client to be administered narcotics
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the Federal Food, Drug, Administration Cosmetic Act
Answer:
act that empowered the FDA to ensure a medication is safe prior to marketing
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Pediatric Research Equity Act
Answer:
Act that authorizes the FDA to require drug manufacturers to test drugs and biological products for safety and effectiveness in children
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Nuremberg trials
Answer:
Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime 3 / 4
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Tuskegee Experiment
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an infamous historical study in which core values of research (respect for persons, beneficence, and justice) were violated
- studied the effects of syphilis in African American men if left untreated
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Thalidomide
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drug was marketed to help with nausea "safely" in pregnancy, can produce a variety of malformations of the limbs (stunted limbs) , eyes, ears, and heart.
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Acidic urine promotes elimination of
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weak base drugs
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Alkaline urine promotes elimination of
Answer:
weak acid drugs
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