Respiratory
The Blackbox warning for Montelukast
BBW: suicidal ideation
This is the appropriate action to take when a person with diabetes becomes unconscious due to severe hypoglycemia.
Administer glucagon
This is an IV solution that is isotonic in bag and hypotonic in body
D5W
Strongest warning the FDA requires on drug labels, indicating potentially serious or life-threatening risks
BBW
What is the course number of this Pharmacology class?
3813
This is the most important teaching when giving theophylline?
The narrow therapeutic range!
The peak of insulin glargine
Trick question! there is no peak for this type of insulin
This type of solution causes water to leave a cell, resulting in cell shrinkage
Hypertonic solution
If a patient takes a strong CYP inhibitor, drug levels in the blood will decrease or increase?
Increase
How to spell the male Pharmacology professor’s last name?
Dr.Moehl
This is the reason why patients with asthma are instructed to take their inhaled corticosteroid daily, even when they have no symptoms.
Reduce airway inflammation and prevent asthma attacks
This lab is monitored with taking PTU
CBC, specifically WBCs, watching for agranulocytosis
What type of fluid shift occurs when administering isotonic fluids
There is no shift between the ICF and the ECF
Drug A produces the desired effect at a dose of 5mg while drug B requires 50mg to produce the same effect. Which drug is more potent?
Drug A
Which diabetes drug has a risk of lactic acidosis, especially in kidney disease?
Metformin
This is the key difference in how mucolytics and expectorants help clear mucus from the respiratory tract.
Mucolytics break down the cellular structure of mucus, while expectorants thin out mucus secretions to make it easier to cough up
A patient has just started on insulin therapy to manage Type II diabetes. What is the most dangerous side effect of insulin that the nurse should teach them about?
Hypoglycemia
A patient is receiving a blood transfusion. The nurse needs to select an IV solution to run with the packed red bleed cells (PRBCs). Which solution is appropriate?
0.9% sodium chloride solution
The nurse administers 650 mg of aspirin at 7 PM. The drug has a half-life of 3 hours. The nurse interprets this information to mean that 325 mg of the medication will have been eliminated from the patient's system by what time?
10pm
Name of the Dean for school of nursing?
Stephanie Woods
When a pt is taking parental xanthine derivatives such as aminophylline, which system should the nurse especially monitor for, in terms of major adverse effects?
CV (tachycardia)
A patient with diabetes insipidus is started on desmopressin (DDAVP). Two weeks later, he reports headache and confusion.Which complication should the nurse anticipate? (*hint: electrolyte related)
Hyponatremia
A provider prescribes IV KCL 20 mEq in 100 mL NS over 1 hour for a patient with hypokalemia. What should the nurse slow the infusion rate down to?
10 mEq/hr
This is the term for the proportion of a drug that enters the systemic circulation unchanged after administration, often lower when taken orally due to first-pass metabolism.
bioavailability
This is the result of prolonged exposure to high levels of cortisol and can present with central obesity, moon face, and a buffalo hump.
Cushing's disease