Pharm Exam
Pharm Exam: Medication Knowledge Challenge
Welcome to the Pharm Exam quiz! This quiz is designed to test your knowledge on various medications, their uses, and potential adverse effects. Perfect for healthcare professionals and students alike, it will help reinforce important concepts in pharmacology.
Quiz Highlights:
- Multiple-choice questions
- Covers a range of medications
- Immediate feedback on answers
A HCP orders Valproic for a patient newly diagnosed with BPD what adverse effect should be of concern to the pt?
Sedation
Confusion
Hepatoxic
Hypotension
This class of drug has many uses depending on route and dose including sleep aid, alcohol, withdrawal, anxiety, seizures and panic disorders. Which one is it?
Benzodiazepines
Mood stabilizers
Traditional antiepileptic
Atypical antipsychotics
Which drug conserves the amount of dopamine in the brain
Levodopa
Carbidopa
A patient has been taking a drug with a narrow therapeutic range for 1 week. What is the most significant implication for the nurse who is caring for this patient?
The drug will be ineffective, because it will have difficulty reaching the minimum effective concentration.
The patient's body will maintain therapeutic levels easily.
The patient should be monitored carefully for toxicity.
The patient's kidney function may be compromised.
Soon after beginning fluoxetine (Prozac), a patient is admitted to the emergency department with shivering and muscle rigdity. The health care professional should suspect which of the following?
Serotonin Syndrome
EPS
Neuroleptic syndrome
Allergic reaction
A pt comes into the ED with bradykinesia and shuffling gait this patient has been on Chlorpromazine for 15 days. What is the best course of treatment for this patient?
Anticholinergics
CNS stimulant
Triazine anti-convulsants
Immunmodulators
A patient with MS ( multiple sclerosis) comes to you worried about possible side effects of his new medication. What is one side effect he might encounter
Injection site reaction
Flu like S/S
Hepatoxicitiy
Depression
All of the above
Bonus points if you can name that drug!!!
Neuroleptic Syndrome is a life threatening reaction that can occur in response to antipsychotic meds
True
False
Therapeutic range for phenytoin
0.6-1.2mEq/L
10-20 mcg/ml
50-120 mcg/ml
6
Pt on phenobarbital which of the following should the nurse do (SATA)
Monitor hypertension
Assess for resp depression
Assess for low blood pressure
Teach pt there is no withdrawal effects
Pt education that sedation is an early side effect
Taking antidepressants can increase risk for suicide in the first few weeks
True
False
A pt on phenytoin is experiencing gingival hyperplasia, bradycardia and, hypotension the RN should discontinue the med and contact the HCP
True
False
Which statement by the pt taking phenytoin is the nurses TOP priority
I need to avoid abrupt stopping of this med
Im taking this med because of my tonic seizures
I noticed a rash on my stomach yesterday
My blood pressure was 90/56 this morning
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