A Med Aide May

Question: True or False? Med aides may only give a PRN if the nurse has specifically delegated the task for the specific resident and drug?
Answer: True. Med aide can't assess the need for a PRN, this must be done by a nurse
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Question: Med aides can't do what?
Answer: Give first doses of new meds
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Question: Factors affecting drug actions include what?
Answer: Weight, age, metabolic rate, and tolerance
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Question: What are the six rights of med administration?
Answer: The right drug, the right person, the right documentation, the right route, the right dose, and the right time
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Question: Before you work as a med aide, you?
Answer: Must pass course exams, complete and demonstrate skills
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Question: As a med aide in your facility, you should what?
Answer: Work within the legal limits of your role
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Question: You tell a patient about your personal problems. This is a what?
Answer: boundary violation
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Question: A nurse asks you to do something beyond the legal limits of your role. You do what?
Answer: Refuse to follow the nurses order and explain why
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Question: You're not sure whether you should give a certain drug, You should do what?
Answer: Ask the Nurse
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Question: In order to assess a person, the nurse decides to give the person the oral drugs that you usually give. You do what?
Answer: Understand this is the best decision for the person at the time.
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Question: The nurse asks you to perform a task that is in your job description. You have not done this task before. You do what?
Answer: Tell the nurse you have not done the task before and ask for help
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Question: When you agree to perform a delegated task. You what?
Answer: Must complete the task safely
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Question: A nurse asks you to perform a task. You do the following except what? restate or clarify what is expected of you, know how to contact the nurse if theres an emergency, document the care given, or do the task even though you have not been trained?
Answer: Do the task even though you have not been trained
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Question: What step can the nurse delegate to you?
Answer: Give certain drugs
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Question: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the power to do the following except what? Determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs before marketing, ensure that manufacturers meet labeling requirements, ensure advertising standards are met when manufacturers market drugs, or determine who gives drugs to patients or residents?
Answer: Determine who gives drugs to patients or residents
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Question: If you fail to do something that a reasonable and careful person would have done, you are what?
Answer: Negligent
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Question: Invasion of privacy occurs if you what?
Answer: Violate a persons right to have his or her name, photo, or private affairs made public without giving consent
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Question: You suspect a persons being abused. You should what?
Answer: Share your concerns with your supervisor
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Question: Schedule 11 drugs may lead to what?
Answer: Severe psychological or physical dependence
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Question: According to the text, when you touch a persons body without his or her consent its called a what?
Answer: Battery
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Question: The intentional mistreatment or harm of another person is what?
Answer: Abuse
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Question: Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct is called what?
Answer: Ethics
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Question: Which statement about an ethical person is true?
Answer: An ethical person behaves in the right way
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Question: You display ethical behavior by what?
Answer: Keeping the persons property safe
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Question: To protect yourself from assault and battery, you what?
Answer: Get the persons consent before doing a procedure
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Question: A nurse gives the wrong dosage of a drug to a person. This is what?
Answer: malpractice
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Question: You gave a drug to the wrong person. This is what?
Answer: Negligence
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Question: You trick a person into taking a drug. This is called what?
Answer: Fraud
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Question: You scold an older person for refusing to take ordered drugs This is what?
Answer: Verbal abuse
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Question: Violating or failing to comply with the Controlled Substance Act can result in a what?
Answer: Fine and Prison term
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Question: Pain and nausea are examples of what?
Answer: Subjective Data
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Question: What observations should you report at once?
Answer: Complaints of sudden severe pain
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Question: Cancer and diabetes are examples of what?
Answer: Medical Diagnosis
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Question: A person is eating. How long should you wait before taking an oral temperature?
Answer: 15 to 20 minutes
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Question: A person has a blood pressure of 118/78. This is what?
Answer: Within normal range
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Question: Good communication occurs when you what?
Answer: Give information in a logical and orderly manner
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Question: A drug is ordered for 1700. The time to give the drug is what?
Answer: 5:00 PM
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Question: Symptoms are an example of what?
Answer: Subjective Data
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Question: Which of the following is not objective data? A persons respiratory rate, the color of a persons urine, a persons blood pressure, or pain felt by a person?
Answer: Pain felt by a person
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Question: When should you record that you gave a person a drug?
Answer: After giving the drug
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Question: You are giving a person his drugs. What observation should you report at once?
Answer: The person refused to take a drug
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Question: The basic unit of body structure is what?
Answer: A cell
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Question: The integumentary system ?
Answer: Covers the body
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Question: The white of the eye is the what?
Answer: Sclera
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Question: The external or (outer part) is called the what?
Answer: pinna or auricle
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Question: Digestion begins where?
Answer: In the oral cavity
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Question: The master gland is the what?
Answer: Pituitary
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Question: A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart is what?
Answer: Artery
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Question: A person feels the need to urinate when the bladder contains how much?
Answer: About 250 mL of urine
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Question: The thyroid hormone regulates what?
Answer: Metabolism
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Question: Which statement about insulin is false? It is secreted by the pancreas, it is needed for sugar to enter the cells, it regulates the amount of sugar in the blood available for use by the cells, or it is secreted by the stomach?
Answer: It is secreted by the stomach
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Question: The generic name of a drug is the what?
Answer: Drugs common name
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Question: Drugs that interact with a receptor to cause a response are what?
Answer: Agonists
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Question: Absorption is the what?
Answer: Process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to circulating body fluids for distribution
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Question: an enteral drug is given?
Answer: Throuhg the oral, rectal, and naso-gastric routes
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Question: The primary routes of excretion for a drug are what?
Answer: Elimination through urine and feces
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Question: An idiosyncratic reaction is what?
Answer: Something unusual or abnormal that happens when a drug is first given
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Question: A drug interaction occurs when
Answer: The action of one drug is altered by the action of another drug
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Question: Another term for urticaria is what?
Answer: Hives
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Question: A severe, life threatening sensitivity to an antigen is what?
Answer: Anaphylaxis
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Question: The rate of absorption depends on the following except what?
Answer: The clinical indications for using a drug
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Question: A prescription drug needs what?
Answer: A doctors order
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Question: Most drugs are metabolized in what?
Answer: In the liver
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Question: Symptoms of anaphylaxis include the following except what?
Answer: Warm, dry skin
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Question: Which factor enhances topical drug absorption in older persons?
Answer: Decreasing skin thickness
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Question: Which oral drug form may be crushed?
Answer: Tablets
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Question: When giving a drug to a child, you should what?
Answer: Open capsules and sprinkle contents on small amounts of food
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Question: An older person is at risk for drug interactions or drug toxicity because of what?
Answer: Chronic illnesses
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Question: When assisting an older person with taking her drugs, you should what?
Answer: Report swallowing difficulties to the nurse
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Question: The process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to blood for distribution is what?
Answer: Absorption
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Question: The elimination of a drug from the body is called what?
Answer: Excretion
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Question: The process by which the body inactivates drugs is what?
Answer: Metabolism
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Question: A tablet is too large for a person to swallow. What do you do?
Answer: Ask the nurse's permission to crush it
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Question: As kidney function decreases, the doctor may what?
Answer: Decrease drug dosages
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Question: Therapeutic drug monitoring is what?
Answer: Done to measure a drugs concentration in body fluids
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Question: You assist with monitoring the effects of drug therapy by doing what?
Answer: Reporting abnormal vital signs at once
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Question: To assist an older person with drug therapy, you should what?
Answer: Use drug organizers and calendars to help the person know when to take drugs
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Question: Drug distribution is likely to be greater in what?
Answer: Infants
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Question: Therapeutic drug monitoring is done to measure what?
Answer: A drugs concentration in the body
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Question: A tablet is scored. This means what?
Answer: The tablet can be broken in half
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Question: A doctor begins to give you a telephone order. You do what?
Answer: Politely give your name and title and ask the doctor to wait for a nurse
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Question: Your moms friend is a client where you work. You're not giving care to that person, but you read the persons chart. This is called what?
Answer: Invasion of Privacy
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Question: A person asks you for his or her chart. What do you do?
Answer: Report the request to the nurse
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Question: After giving the drug, you record it on the what?
Answer: MAR
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Question: Which order requires the drug to be given at once and only one time?
Answer: STAT order
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Question: Which order allows the nurse to decide when to give the drug based on the persons needs?
Answer: PRN order
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Question: One tablespoon is how many teaspoons?
Answer: Three
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Question: The following statements are about prescription labels. Which is false? Always read the label carefully, If a label is not complete tell the nurse at once, check the expiration date, or you may give the drug after the expiration date
Answer: You may give the drug after the expiration date
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Question: A drug is ordered q.i.d. the drug should be given when?
Answer: 4 times a day
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Question: A drug is ordered q8h. The drug should be given when?
Answer: Every 8 hours
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Question: A drug is ordered p.c. The drug is given when?
Answer: After meals
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Question: A prescription label is not complete. You should what?
Answer: Tell the nurse
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Question: Before giving a drug, you must do what?
Answer: Check the persons allergies
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Question: A person was discharged and you need to dispose of a drug. What do you do?
Answer: Ask someone to watch you dispose of the drug
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Question: Before giving any drug, you compare the exact spelling of the drug against the what?
Answer: MAR
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Question: A drug is ordered for 9:00 AM. You may give the drug between when?
Answer: 8:30 am and 9:30 am
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Question: To make sure you have the right person when giving a drug, you use at least what?
Answer: Two identifiers
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Question: A person has difficulty swallowing his or her drugs. What do you do?
Answer: Tell the nurse
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Question: A sublingual drug is given where?
Answer: Under the tongue
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Question: Controlled substances are what?
Answer: kept in a locked cabinent or drawer
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Question: The following statements are about drug diversion. Which is false? It's a crime, Record the name and title of the person who witnesses your disposal of a drug, have someone watch you dispose a drug, or dispose of the drug yourself?
Answer: Dispose of the drug yourself
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Question: To give the right dose, what do you do?
Answer: Compare the dose on the pharmacy label against the MAR
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Question: You are giving drugs from a cart. When you enter a persons room you what?
Answer: Lock the cart before entering the persons room
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Question: Who may change the route of administration of a drug?
Answer: Doctor
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Question: You have a drug ready to give. The person refuses to take the drug. What should you do with the drug?
Answer: Dispose of it according to policy
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Question: The right dose is what?
Answer: The amount of drug to give
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Question: To prevent infections you should do what?
Answer: Practice hand hygiene before and after giving drugs
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Question: A drug order is written as PO. You do what?
Answer: Give the drug as ordered
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Question: One tsp equals what?
Answer: 5 mL
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Question: You are giving liquid drugs. You do what?
Answer: Give cough syrup last
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Question: You are giving a buccal tablet. The tablet is what?
Answer: Placed between the cheek and molar teeth
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Question: Another term for lozenge is what?
Answer: Troche
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Question: Which of the following drug orders would you question? 50 mg by mouth, 50 mg PO, 50 mg orally, or 50 mg per os?
Answer: 50 mg per os
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Question: A person is receiving a time-released capsule This means what?
Answer: There is a continuous release of the drug
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Question: Enteric-coated tablets dissolve in the what?
Answer: Small intestines
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Question: Before giving a suspension, you do what?
Answer: Shake the bottle
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Question: An ointment is in a jar. What should you use to remove the amount ordered?
Answer: A sterile tongue blade
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Question: When applying a topical drug, you do all the following except what? Apply the dose to clean dry skin, wear gloves, practice hand hygiene before and after the application, or document before applying the drug?
Answer: Document before applying the drug
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Question: You need to give a person two different eye drugs. How long should you wait between the drugs?
Answer: Usually 1 to 5 minutes
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Question: How long does a person remain in the side-lying position after receiving ear drops?
Answer: Usually 5-10 minutes
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Question: When giving an eye medication, you what?
Answer: Give eye drops at room temperature
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Question: After receiving a rectal suppository, a person is usually in the what position?
Answer: Sims position for 15-20 minutes
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Question: A rectal drug is inserted where?
Answer: About 1 inch into the rectum
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Question: Many of the drugs used for mental health issues can cause side effects that are a great concern. One of the most severe side effects is the development of involuntary body movements. The type of drug that is most likely to cause these is what?
Answer: Anti psychotic agents
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Question: True or False? The majority of the mental health drugs (anti anxiety agents, anti depressants, and anti psychotics) should never be stopped abruptly.
Answer: True. They need to be tapered gradually
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Question: Common side effects of narcotic pain medications include all of the following except what? drowsiness, pain relief, constipation, or diarrhea?
Answer: Diarreah
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Question: Cardiac medications can help prevent heart attacks and help persons with coronary artery disease to live longer. Several drugs can be used to treat hypertension. What are the drugs that may be prescribed?
Answer: ACE inhibitors, diuretics, and beta blockers
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Question: What forms of oral medications cannot be crushed?
Answer: Sublingual meds, extended or sustained release meds, buccal meds, and enteric coated meds
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Question: Beta blocking agents (beta blockers) are commonly used to treat what?
Answer: Angina
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Question: Before giving a benzodiapine, you should what?
Answer: Measure vital signs
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Question: You are giving a person carbidopa, levodopa (Sinemet CR) tablets. You do what?
Answer: Ask the person to swallow the tablet whole
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Question: Anti-cholinergic agents are given to persons with Parkinsons disease to what?
Answer: Reduce drooling and tremors
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Question: The first thing you do when a person develops an allergic reaction to a drug is to what?
Answer: Tell the nurse at once
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Question: A drug that produces sleep is called what?
Answer: A hypnotic
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Question: Albuterol (Proventil) is used for asthma and emphysema because it is what?
Answer: A bronchodilator
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Question: Before giving a beta blocker, you what?
Answer: Measure BP, heart rate, and rhythm
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Question: Benzodiapines can cause drowsiness, hangover, sedation, and what?
Answer: Lethargy
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Question: Zolpidem (Ambien) should be taken when?
Answer: Before bed
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Question: The most common side effects for benziodiapines are what?
Answer: Drowsiness and loss of coordination
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Question: You're giving a person fluoxetine (Prozac). You should what?
Answer: Remind the person to use caution when performing tasks that require alertness
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Question: A person with a bipolar disorder has what?
Answer: Has emotional lows and emotional highs
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Question: A person has been started on selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. You expect to see drug effects in what?
Answer: 2 to 4 weeks
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Question: Many of the drugs used to treat mental health disorders affect the what?
Answer: Central Nervous System
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Question: Anti-psychotic drugs often cause what?
Answer: Involuntary body movements
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Question: Phenytoin (Dilantin) is given with what?
Answer: Food or milk
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Question: A person with an allergic reaction to a drug develops what?
Answer: Rash and itching
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Question: Anti-convulsant therapy is the main treatment for what?
Answer: seizures
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Question: A person is taking gabapentin (Neurontin) and an antacid. When will you give gabapentin (Neurontin)?
Answer: 2 hours after the antacid
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Question: Which is a benzodiapine? check
Answer: Clorazepate (Tranxene)
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Question: Opiate agonists are used to what?
Answer: Relieve acute or chronic moderate to severe pain
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Question: A person taking oxycodone (Percodan) has a respiratory rate of 8 per minute. You what?
Answer: Report this to the nurse at once and record it int he medical record
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Question: A person taking a salicylate should take it with what?
Answer: Food or milk
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Question: Who decides whether a person is having pain?
Answer: The person
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Question: A person taking an opiate agonist has constipation. You do the following except what?
Answer: Measure vital signs
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Question: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is used for all the following except what? Fever, headache, muscle pain, and inflamation?
Answer: Inflamation
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Question: Opiate agonists can cause euphoria. Euphoria is what?
Answer: An exaggerated feeling of well-being
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Question: Gemfibrozil (Lopid) is given when?
Answer: 30 minutes before the morning and evening meals
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Question: LDL is called what?
Answer: The bad cholesterol
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Question: The daily dose of atorvastatin (Lipitor) is what?
Answer: 10 to 40 mg
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Question: Which drug is a fibric acid?
Answer: Gemfibrozil (Lopid)
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Question: Common side effects from anti-lipemic drugs are what?
Answer: Nausea and abdominal discomfort
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Question: Niacin acts as an anti-lipemic bevause it what?
Answer: Limits the livers ability to produce LDL
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Question: Statins lower LDL and total cholesterol levels because they what?
Answer: Block the enzyme needed to produce cholesterol
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Question: Before giving most anti-hypertensive agents, you measure the what?
Answer: Apical pulse
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Question: Before giving most anti-hypertensive agents, you take the BP in what position?
Answer: Supine and Standing
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Question: A person on an ACE inhibitor has hypotension and tachycardia. What should you do?
Answer: Report this to the nurse at once
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Question: A person is taking diltiazem (Cardizem) a calcium ion antagonist. The person should what?
Answer: Measure his or her weight daily
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Question: A person taking an alpha-1 adrenergic blocking agent complains of weakness and lethargy. You what?
Answer: Both report it and record it
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Question: In what situation will the persons blood pressure be lowest?
Answer: When lying down
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Question: Which BP is normal? 136/84, 158/82, 142/88, or 116/76?
Answer: 116/76
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Question: A person has a BP of 142/90. This is considered what?
Answer: Hypertension
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Question: A person on a beta blocker is having bradycardia and wheezing. You what?
Answer: Withhold the next dose if the nurse tells you to
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Question: Which promote the formation and excretion of urine?
Answer: Dieuretics
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Question: What is a calcium channel blocker?
Answer: Amlodipine (Norvasc)
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Question: When giving drugs for a heart dysrhythmia, you should what?
Answer: Measure apical pulse for 1 minute
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Question: Beta blockers are used to what?
Answer: Slow the heart rate
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Question: The normal heart rate for an adult is between what?
Answer: 60 and 100 beats per minute
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Question: Angina means what?
Answer: Chest pain
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Question: A personi s taking a nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) sublingual tablet. He or she should what?
Answer: Let the tablet dissolve under the tongue
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Question: Digoxin (Lanoxin) is usually given if the apical pulse is what?
Answer: Between 60 and 100 beats per minute
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Question: A platelet aggregation inhibitor prevents what?
Answer: Platelets from clumping
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Question: Nitrates relieve angina by what?
Answer: Dilating coronary arteries
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Question: A person has nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) sublingual tablets. The person should what?
Answer: Carry the drug with them at all times
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Question: Lanoxin is used in the treatment of heart failure. It does what?
Answer: Increases the force of heart muscle contraction
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Question: Ascites is the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the what?
Answer: Peritoneal cavity
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Question: The purpose of a diuretic is to what?
Answer: Increase the loss of water from the body
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Question: The effects of loop diuretics last about what?
Answer: 6 hours
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Question: Diuretics are given when?
Answer: In the AM
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Question: What may signal dehydration and electrolyte imbalance from diuretics?
Answer: Changes in alertness and confusion
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Question: An embolus is what?
Answer: A small part of a thrombus that breaks off and travels through the vascular system until it lodges in a blood vessel
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Question: What drug is not a platelet inhibitor? Dipyridamole (Persantine), Ticlopidine (Ticlid), Clopidgrel (Plavix), or Warfarin (Coumadin)?
Answer: Warfsrin (Coumadin)
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Question: A blood clot is called what?
Answer: A thrombus
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Question: Aspirin is what?
Answer: a platelet inhibitor
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Question: Anti-coagulant drugs do what?
Answer: Prevent new clots
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Question: When giving pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), you should what?
Answer: Measure vital signs
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Question: Broncho-dilators are used for what?
Answer: In the treatment of COPD
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Question: Drugs that cause vaso-constriction of the nasal mucosa are what?
Answer: Decongestants
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Question: A term for antitussive is what?
Answer: Cough Suppresant
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Question: The most common side effect from antihistamines is what?
Answer: Sedation
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Question: A person uses an inhalent cortico-steroid. You observe for what?
Answer: Mouth infections
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Question: Expectorants?
Answer: Liquify mucus
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Question: Nasal decongestants promote what?
Answer: Sinus drainage
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Question: Antihistamines cause what?
Answer: Dry, thick secretions of the mouth, nose, throat, and bronchi
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Question: Antacids are drugs that do what?
Answer: Buffer, neutralize, or absorb hydrochloric acid in the stomach
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Question: Drugs that form a substance that adheres to the crater of an ulcer are what?
Answer: Coating agents
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Question: Drugs that inhibit gastric acid secretion are what?
Answer: Gastro-intestinal prostaglands
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Question: A person has several drugs ordered. You give the drugs when?
Answer: 1 hour before or 2 hours after giving atacids
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Question: When you are giving a proton pump inhibitor, the dose form should what?
Answer: Should be swallowed whole
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Question: What is true about eye drops and ointments?
Answer: Ointments often blur vision, if more than 1 eye drop is ordered wait 5 minutes before giving the 2nd, and never give more than 2 drops to each eye for best absorption.
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Question: The infection that can develop years later for those who have had chicken pox is called what?
Answer: herpes zoster
shingles
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Question: What is the best answer for when infections should be treated with an antibiotic?
Answer: When the infection is caused by bacteria
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Question: What are common signs of a urinary tract infection in the elderly?
Answer: urgency, burning or pain with voiding, and confusion
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Question: Anti-emetics are drugs used to treat what?
Answer: Nausea and vomiting
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Question: Prochlorperazine (Compazine) is a phenothiazine used to treat what?
Answer: Nausea and vomiting
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Question: Dimenhydrinate (Dramamime), an anti-cholinergic agent, may be used for what?
Answer: Motion sickness
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Question: You are giving a person a Dulcolax suppository. You expect the drug to act within what time?
Answer: 1-1.5 hours
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Question: Bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol) does what?
Answer: Absorbs excess water to cause a formed stool
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Question: Anti-emetics are more effective if given when?
Answer: Before the onset of nausea
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Question: Benziodiapines reduce nausea and vomiting. They also do what?
Answer: Reduce anxiety associated with chemotherapy
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Question: A person is taking a stimulant laxative by mouth. This type of laxative acts within what time?
Answer: 6-10 hours
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Question: Which laxative is a fecal softener?
Answer: Colace
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Question: Which is a phenothiazine used to control vomiting?
Answer: Prochlorperazine (Compazine)
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Question: Drugs that lower the blood glucose level are what?
Answer: Hypo-glycemic agents
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Question: Drugs used to suppress the production of thyroid hormones are what?
Answer: Anti-thyroid agents
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Question: Low sugar in the blood is what?
Answer: Hypoglycemia
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Question: Hypoglycemia is caused by what?
Answer: Too much insulin or diabetic drugs
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Question: Which drug is a first-generation sulfonylurea?
Answer: Chlorpropamide (Diabinase)
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Question: Blood glucose is highest when?
Answer: After meals
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Question: Metformin (Glocophage) is what?
Answer: An oral anti-diabetic agent
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Question: Sulfonylurea agents lower blood glucose by doing what?
Answer: Stimulating the release of insulin
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Question: The gluco-corticoids do what?
Answer: Regulate carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism
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Question: Gluco-corticoids are given for what?
Answer: For their anti-inflammatory and anti-allergenic effectd
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Question: Hormones that maintain fluid and electrolyte balance are called?
Answer: Mineralo-corticoids
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Question: Hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex of the adrenal gland are called what?
Answer: Cortico-steroids
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Question: A person has a history of mental health problems. Behavior changes may occur when taking what?
Answer: Cortico-steroids
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Question: Antiviral drugs are used to treat what?
Answer: Herpes
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Question: Serious complications of oral contraceptives are what?
Answer: Dizziness and leg pain
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Question: Tamsulosin (Flomax) is used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia. It does what?
Answer: Causes muscles to relax to allow greater urine flow
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Question: Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin and Furadantin)is given when?
Answer: Is given every 6 hours
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Question: The following are given to control over-active bladder except what? Darifenacin (Enablex), Tolterodine (Detrol), Solifenacin (Vesicare), or Norfloxacin (Noroxin)?
Answer: Norfloxacin (Noroxin)
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Question: A person taking a quinolone antibiotic has hematuria. He or she should drink what?
Answer: 8 to 12 glasses of water daily
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Question: What is given as a single dose to treat cystitis?
Answer: Fosfomycin (Monurol)
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Question: Drugs given for over-active bladder syndrome can cause what?
Answer: Dry mouth, constipation, and blurred vision
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Question: To safely give topical ophthalmic agents, you should do what?
Answer: Wait at least 5 minutes is more than one drug is ordered
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Question: Osmotic agents are used to what?
Answer: To treat glaucoma
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Question: A person who is allergic to sulfonamide antibiotics has an order for acetazolamide (Diamox), a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor. What should you do?
Answer: You should not give the drug and ask the nurse what to do
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Question: A person taking a beta-adrenergic blocking agent has bradycardia and hypotension. What do you do?
Answer: Tell the nurse and record the symptoms in the chart
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Question: Ophthalmic antibiotics are used to treat what?
Answer: Superficial eye infections
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Question: Cortico-steroids are used to treat what?
Answer: Allergic reactions of the eye
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Question: A person has glaucoma. The goal of drug therapy is to do what?
Answer: Reduce intra-ocular pressure
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Question: Cholinergic agents are used to treat glaucoma because they do what?
Answer: Reduce intra-ocular pressure
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Question: What is a cholinergic agent used to treat glaucoma?
Answer: Pilocarpine (Pilocar)
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Question: Adrenergic agents do what?
Answer: Dilate the pupils
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Question: Eyedrops are applied when?
Answer: Before eye ointments
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Question: Artificial tears are used to do what>
Answer: Lubricate the eyes
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Question: Side effects to radiation therapy may include what?
Answer: Burns and skin breakdown
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Question: Side effects from chemotherapy may include all the following except what? Alopecia, Stomatitis, Bleeding and Infection, or Burns to the skin?
Answer: Burns to the skin
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Question: A person receiving chemotherapy will likely experience what?
Answer: Diarrhea
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Question: A person with muscle spasticity and a swallowing problem will most likely be ordered what drug?
Answer: Balcofen (Lioresal) oral and disintegrating tablets
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Question: Colchicine does what?
Answer: Relieves joint pain caused by an acute gout attack
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Question: Centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants are used to what?
Answer: Relieve acute muscle spasm
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Question: Baclofen (Lioresal) is given to persons with what?
Answer: Multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries
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Question: Allopurinol (Aloprim) is given with what?
Answer: With food or milk
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Question: Centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants act by doing what?
Answer: By depressing the CNS
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Question: What is a direct-acting skeletal muscle relaxant?
Answer: Dantrolene (Dantrium)
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Question: After therapy is started, a person receiving colchicine should begin to see symptom relief within how many days?
Answer: 2-3 days
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Question: Persons receiving drug therapy for gout should be observed for what?
Answer: GI symptoms
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Question: Signs and symptoms of allergic reactions include the following except what? Hives, severe respiratory distress, wheezing and dyspnea, or edema and weight gain?
Answer: Edema and weight gain
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Question: Side effects of cephalo-sporins may include what?
Answer: Diarrhea and vomiting
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Question: You are giving a person azithromycin (Zithromax), a macrolide. You should observe for what?
Answer: Nausea and vomiting
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Question: A person is taking ampicillin (Principen), you should observe for what?
Answer: Diarrhea
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Question: Quinolones, such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro), are effective in treating what?
Answer: Initial and recurrent UTI's
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Question: A person taking a sulfonamide should do what?
Answer: Drink lots of water
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Question: Tetracyclines are given when?
Answer: 1 hour before or 2 hours after ingesting antacids or dairy products
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Question: What drug is not an anti-tubercular agent?
Answer: Demeclocyline (Declomycin)
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Question: Metronidazole (Flagyl) is used to treat what?
Answer: Vaginal Infections
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Question: Vancomycin (vancocin) may cause what?
Answer: Tinnitus and hearing loss
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Question: Terbinafine (Lamisil) is used to treat what?
Answer: Fungal infections of the toenails and finger nails
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Question: Acyclovir (Zovirax) is used to treat what?
Answer: Genital Herpes Infection
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Question: When giving oseltamivir (Tamiflu), you should observe for what?
Answer: Cough and sore throat
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Question: Anti-bacterial agents destroy what?
Answer: Bacteria
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Question: Before giving an anti-microbial drug, you always do what?
Answer: Check for allergies
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Question: Neomycin (Neo-Fradin) can cause what?
Answer: Hearing loss
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Question: A common side effect of penicillin is what?
Answer: Diarrhea
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Question: Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) is taken when?
Answer: 2 hours after meals
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Question: Which drug class may stain teeth if given during tooth development?
Answer: Tetracyclines
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Question: Isoniazid (INH) is given when?
Answer: On an empty stomach
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Question: A person taking metronidazole (Flagyl) or tinidazole (Tindamax) should avoid what?
Answer: Alcoholic beverages and products containing alcohol
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Question: Protein is needed for what?
Answer: Tissue growth and repair
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Question: Carbohydrates are found in what?
Answer: Fruits and vegetables
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Question: How much water does an adult need each day to survive?
Answer: 1500 mL
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Question: A PEG tube is inserted into where?
Answer: The stomach
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Question: Vitamin K is needed for what?
Answer: Blood clotting
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Question: Thiamin is what?
Answer: Vitamin B1
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Question: Ascorbic acid is what?
Answer: Vitamin C
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