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Pharmaceutical Knowledge Quiz

Test your expertise and knowledge in pharmacology with this comprehensive quiz designed for healthcare professionals and students! Engage with 10 carefully crafted questions that cover key medications, their uses, and patient education. Assess your understanding and identify areas for improvement.

Multiple-choice and checkbox style questions
Topics include antimicrobials, antihypertensives, and more
Ideal for nursing students and healthcare providers

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by TestingNurse204

. A client is prescribed rifampin what information should the nurse include in the client's medication education?

It has an increased serum half-life so it is more effective than rifabutin

The urine, tears, sweat and other body fluids will be discolored red-orange.

It decreases hepatic enzymes and decrease metabolism of drug

When talking it with warfarin an increased anticoagulant effect occurs

A client who underwent bilateral total knee replacement was complaining of bilateral knee pain. The client was started on morphine 2mg for every 6hrs. The parental morphine comes in 5mg/5ml. How many ml of the drug should be discarded or wasted?

5mL

3mL

2mL

7mL

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

When talking to a client who is about to begin glipizide therapy to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus, the health instructions?

Urinate every two to four hours

Avoid drinking alcohol

Sit or Stand for 30 mins after taking the drug

Take the drugs 2hrs after a meal

A client with coronary artery disease (CAD) has been prescribed simvastatin/ fluvastatin. When reviewing the clients more recent laboratory values which findings should the nurse attribute to adverse effects of this medication?

Decreased serum potassium

Decreased hemoglobin

Increased neutrophil levels

Increased liver enzymes

A client is started on an antibiotic. Which factor is most important to take into consideration before beginning the antibiotic regimens?

Culture and sensitivity

Client’s age and weight

Client’s hydration status

A client is unconscious and experiencing increasing intracranial pressure (ICP) due to cerebral edema. What type of diuretic will the client most likely prescribe?

Amiloride

Spironolactone

Hydrochlorothiazide

Mannitol

A patient is started on Omeprazole 20mg OD. Which of the following diagnosis were an indication of utilizing the medication? SATA

An elderly client is taking a sustained-release antihypertensive drug. What is the nurse’s priority teaching point about this medication?

Used over the counter (OTC) cold medication cautiously

Take your blood pressure only at night so that its most accurate

Take the drug before bedtime to reduce your risk of falling

Swallow the drug whole and do not cut, crush or chew it

The client with hypothyroidism takes levothyroxine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level drawn in the laboratory to check the appropriateness of the prescribed dose. What results the nurse analyzes as indicating the need for a higher dosage of medication?

Reduced TSH, T3 and T4 levels

Elevate TSH, reduced T3 and T4 levels

Reduce TSH, elevated T3 and T4 levels

Elevate TSH, elevated T3 and reduced T4 levels

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