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1. 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
2. Before you work as a med aide, you? -- Answer ✔✔ Must pass course exams, complete and demonstrate skills
3. Med aides can't do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Give first doses of new meds
4. As a med aide in your facility, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Work within the legal limits of your role
5. Factors affecting drug actions include what? -- Answer ✔✔ Weight, age, metabolic rate, and tolerance
6. A person on an ACE inhibitor has hypotension and tachycardia. What should you do? -- Answer ✔✔ Report this to the nurse at once
7. A person is taking diltiazem (Cardizem) a calcium ion antagonist. The person should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure his or her weight daily
8. A person taking an alpha-1 adrenergic blocking agent complains of weakness and lethargy. You what? -- Answer ✔✔ Both report it and record it

9. In what situation will the persons blood pressure be lowest? -- Answer ✔✔ When lying down
10. Which BP is normal? 136/84, 158/82, 142/88, or 116/76? -- Answer ✔✔ 116/
11. A person has a BP of 142/90. This is considered what? -- Answer ✔✔ Hypertension
12. A person on a beta blocker is having bradycardia and wheezing. You what? -- Answer ✔✔ Withhold the next dose if the nurse tells you to
13. Which promote the formation and excretion of urine? -- Answer ✔✔ Diuretics
14. What is a calcium channel blocker? -- Answer ✔✔ Amlodipine (Norvasc)
15. When giving drugs for a heart dysrhythmia, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure apical pulse for 1 minute
16. Beta blockers are used to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Slow the heart rate
17. The normal heart rate for an adult is between what? -- Answer ✔✔ 60 and 100 beats per minute
18. Angina means what? -- Answer ✔✔ Chest pain
19. A person is taking a nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) sublingual tablet. He or she should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Let the tablet dissolve under the tongue
20. Digoxin (Lanoxin) is usually given if the apical pulse is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Between 60 and 100 beats per minute

21. A platelet aggregation inhibitor prevents what? -- Answer ✔✔ Platelets from clumping
22. Nitrates relieve angina by what? -- Answer ✔✔ Dilating coronary arteries
23. A person has nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) sublingual tablets. The person should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Carry the drug with them at all times
24. Lanoxin is used in the treatment of heart failure. It does what? -- Answer ✔✔ Increases the force of heart muscle contraction
25. Ascites is the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Peritoneal cavity
26. The purpose of a diuretic is to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Increase the loss of water from the body
27. The effects of loop diuretics last about what? -- Answer ✔✔ 6 hours
28. Diuretics are given when? -- Answer ✔✔ In the AM
29. What may signal dehydration and electrolyte imbalance from diuretics? -- Answer ✔✔ Changes in alertness and confusion
30. 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
31. What drug is not a platelet inhibitor? Dipyridamole (Persantine), Ticlopidine (Ticlid), Clopidgrel (Plavix), or Warfarin (Coumadin)? -- Answer ✔✔ Warfsrin (Coumadin)
32. A blood clot is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ A thrombus

33. Aspirin is what? -- Answer ✔✔ a platelet inhibitor
34. Anti-coagulant drugs do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Prevent new clots
35. When giving pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure vital signs
36. You tell a patient about your personal problems. This is a what? -- Answer ✔✔ boundary violation
37. 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
38. You're not sure whether you should give a certain drug, You should do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Ask the Nurse
39. 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.
40. 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
41. When you agree to perform a delegated task. You what? -- Answer ✔✔ Must complete the task safely
42. 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 there’s 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
43. What step can the nurse delegate to you? -- Answer ✔✔ Give certain drugs

44. 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
45. If you fail to do something that a reasonable and careful person would have done, you are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Negligent
46. Invasion of privacy occurs if you what? -- Answer ✔✔ Violate a person’s right to have his or her name, photo, or private affairs made public without giving consent
47. You suspect a person’s being abused. You should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Share your concerns with your supervisor
48. Schedule 11 drugs may lead to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Severe psychological or physical dependence
49. According to the text, when you touch a person’s body without his or her consent it’s called a what? -- Answer ✔✔ Battery
50. The intentional mistreatment or harm of another person is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Abuse
51. Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ Ethics
52. Which statement about an ethical person is true? -- Answer ✔✔ An ethical person behaves in the right way
53. You display ethical behavior by what? -- Answer ✔✔ Keeping the persons property safe

54. To protect yourself from assault and battery, you what? -- Answer ✔✔ Get the persons consent before doing a procedure
55. A nurse gives the wrong dosage of a drug to a person. This is what? -- Answer ✔✔ malpractice
56. You gave a drug to the wrong person. This is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Negligence
57. You trick a person into taking a drug. This is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ Fraud
58. You scold an older person for refusing to take ordered drugs This is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Verbal abuse
59. Violating or failing to comply with the Controlled Substance Act can result in a what? -- Answer ✔✔ Fine and Prison term
60. Pain and nausea are examples of what? -- Answer ✔✔ Subjective Data
61. What observations should you report at once? -- Answer ✔✔ Complaints of sudden severe pain
62. Cancer and diabetes are examples of what? -- Answer ✔✔ Medical Diagnosis
63. A person is eating. How long should you wait before taking an oral temperature? -- Answer ✔✔ 15 to 20 minutes
64. A person has a blood pressure of 118/78. This is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Within normal range
65. Good communication occurs when you what? -- Answer ✔✔ Give information in a logical and orderly manner

66. A drug is ordered for 1700. The time to give the drug is what? -- Answer ✔✔ 5:00 PM
67. Symptoms are an example of what? -- Answer ✔✔ Subjective Data
68. Which of the following is not objective data? A persons respiratory rate, the color of a person’s urine, a persons blood pressure, or pain felt by a person? -- Answer ✔✔ Pain felt by a person
69. When should you record that you gave a person a drug? -- Answer ✔✔ After giving the drug
70. You are giving a person his drugs. What observation should you report at once? -- Answer ✔✔ The person refused to take a drug
71. The basic unit of body structure is what? -- Answer ✔✔ A cell
72. The integumentary system? -- Answer ✔✔ Covers the body
73. The white of the eye is the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Sclera
74. The external or (outer part) is called the what? -- Answer ✔✔ pinna or auricle
75. Digestion begins where? -- Answer ✔✔ In the oral cavity
76. The master gland is the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Pituitary
77. A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Artery
78. A person feels the need to urinate when the bladder contains how much? -- Answer ✔✔ About 250 mL of urine
79. The thyroid hormone regulates what? -- Answer ✔✔ Metabolism

80. 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
81. The generic name of a drug is the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Drugs common name
82. Drugs that interact with a receptor to cause a response are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Agonists
83. Absorption is the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to circulating body fluids for distribution
84. an enteral drug is given? -- Answer ✔✔ Through the oral, rectal, and naso-gastric routes
85. The primary routes of excretion for a drug are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Elimination through urine and feces
86. An idiosyncratic reaction is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Something unusual or abnormal that happens when a drug is first given
87. A drug interaction occurs when -- Answer ✔✔ The action of one drug is altered by the action of another drug
88. Another term for urticaria is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Hives
89. A severe, life threatening sensitivity to an antigen is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Anaphylaxis
90. The rate of absorption depends on the following except what? -- Answer ✔✔ The clinical indications for using a drug

91. A prescription drug needs what? -- Answer ✔✔ A doctors order
92. Most drugs are metabolized in what? -- Answer ✔✔ In the liver
93. Symptoms of anaphylaxis include the following except what? -- Answer ✔✔ Warm, dry skin
94. Which factor enhances topical drug absorption in older persons? -- Answer ✔✔ Decreasing skin thickness
95. Which oral drug form may be crushed? -- Answer ✔✔ Tablets
96. When giving a drug to a child, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Open capsules and sprinkle contents on small amounts of food
97. An older person is at risk for drug interactions or drug toxicity because of what? -- Answer ✔✔ Chronic illnesses
98. 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
99. When assisting an older person with taking her drugs, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Report swallowing difficulties to the nurse
100. The process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to blood for distribution is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Absorption
101. The elimination of a drug from the body is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ Excretion
102. The process by which the body inactivates drugs is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Metabolism
103. A tablet is too large for a person to swallow. What do you do? -- Answer ✔✔ Ask the nurse's permission to crush it

104. As kidney function decreases, the doctor may what? -- Answer ✔✔ Decrease drug dosages
105. Therapeutic drug monitoring is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Done to measure a drugs concentration in body fluids
106. You assist with monitoring the effects of drug therapy by doing what? -- Answer ✔✔ Reporting abnormal vital signs at once
107. 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
108. Drug distribution is likely to be greater in what? -- Answer ✔✔ Infants
109. Therapeutic drug monitoring is done to measure what? -- Answer ✔✔ A drugs concentration in the body
110. A tablet is scored. This means what? -- Answer ✔✔ The tablet can be broken in half
111. 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
112. 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
113. A person asks you for his or her chart. What do you do? -- Answer ✔✔ Report the request to the nurse
114. After giving the drug, you record it on the what? -- Answer ✔✔ MAR

115. Which order requires the drug to be given at once and only one time? -- Answer ✔✔ STAT order
116. Which order allows the nurse to decide when to give the drug based on the persons needs? -- Answer ✔✔ PRN order
117. One tablespoon is how many teaspoons? -- Answer ✔✔ Three
118. 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
119. A drug is ordered q.i.d. the drug should be given when? -- Answer ✔✔ 4 times a day
120. A drug is ordered q8h. The drug should be given when? -- Answer ✔✔ Every 8 hours
121. A drug is ordered p.c. The drug is given when? -- Answer ✔✔ After meals
122. A prescription label is not complete. You should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Tell the nurse
123. Before giving a drug, you must do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Check the persons allergies
124. 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
125. Before giving any drug, you compare the exact spelling of the drug against the what? -- Answer ✔✔ MAR

126. A drug is ordered for 9:00 AM. You may give the drug between when? -- Answer ✔✔ 8:30 am and 9:30 am
127. To make sure you have the right person when giving a drug, you use at least what? -- Answer ✔✔ Two identifiers
128. A person has difficulty swallowing his or her drugs. What do you do? -- Answer ✔✔ Tell the nurse
129. A sublingual drug is given where? -- Answer ✔✔ Under the tongue
130. Controlled substances are what? -- Answer ✔✔ kept in a locked cabinet or drawer
131. 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
132. To give the right dose, what do you do? -- Answer ✔✔ Compare the dose on the pharmacy label against the MAR
133. You are giving drugs from a cart. When you enter a persons room you what? -- Answer ✔✔ Lock the cart before entering the persons room
134. Who may change the route of administration of a drug? -- Answer ✔✔ Doctor
135. 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
136. The right dose is what? -- Answer ✔✔ The amount of drug to give

137. To prevent infections you should do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Practice hand hygiene before and after giving drugs
138. A drug order is written as PO. You do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Give the drug as ordered
139. One tsp equals what? -- Answer ✔✔ 5 mL
140. You are giving liquid drugs. You do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Give cough syrup last
141. You are giving a buccal tablet. The tablet is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Placed between the cheek and molar teeth
142. Another term for lozenge is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Troche
143. 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
144. A person is receiving a time-released capsule This means what? -- Answer ✔✔ There is a continuous release of the drug
145. Enteric-coated tablets dissolve in the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Small intestines
146. Before giving a suspension, you do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Shake the bottle
147. An ointment is in a jar. What should you use to remove the amount ordered? -- Answer ✔✔ A sterile tongue blade
148. 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

149. You need to give a person two different eye drugs. How long should you wait between the drugs? -- Answer ✔✔ Usually 1 to 5 minutes
150. How long does a person remain in the side-lying position after receiving ear drops? -- Answer ✔✔ Usually 5-10 minutes
151. When giving an eye medication, you what? -- Answer ✔✔ Give eye drops at room temperature
152. After receiving a rectal suppository, a person is usually in the what position? -- Answer ✔✔ Sims position for 15-20 minutes
153. A rectal drug is inserted where? -- Answer ✔✔ About 1 inch into the rectum
154. 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
155. 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
156. Common side effects of narcotic pain medications include all of the following except what? drowsiness, pain relief, constipation, or diarrhea? -- Answer ✔✔ Diarrhea
157. 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

158. What forms of oral medications cannot be crushed? -- Answer ✔✔ Sublingual meds, extended or sustained release meds, buccal meds, and enteric coated meds
159. Beta blocking agents (beta blockers) are commonly used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Angina
160. Before giving a benzodiapine, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure vital signs
161. You are giving a person carbidopa, levodopa (Sinemet CR) tablets. You do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Ask the person to swallow the tablet whole
162. Anti-cholinergic agents are given to persons with Parkinsons disease to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Reduce drooling and tremors
163. The first thing you do when a person develops an allergic reaction to a drug is to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Tell the nurse at once
164. A drug that produces sleep is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ A hypnotic
165. Albuterol (Proventil) is used for asthma and emphysema because it is what? -- Answer ✔✔ A bronchodilator
166. Before giving a beta blocker, you what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure BP, heart rate, and rhythm
167. Benzodiapines can cause drowsiness, hangover, sedation, and what? -- Answer ✔✔ Lethargy
168. Zolpidem (Ambien) should be taken when? -- Answer ✔✔ Before bed

169. The most common side effects for benziodiapines are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Drowsiness and loss of coordination
170. You're giving a person fluoxetine (Prozac). You should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Remind the person to use caution when performing tasks that require alertness
171. A person with a bipolar disorder has what? -- Answer ✔✔ Has emotional lows and emotional highs
172. A person has been started on selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. You expect to see drug effects in what? -- Answer ✔✔ 2 to 4 weeks
173. Many of the drugs used to treat mental health disorders affect the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Central Nervous System
174. Anti-psychotic drugs often cause what? -- Answer ✔✔ Involuntary body movements
175. Phenytoin (Dilantin) is given with what? -- Answer ✔✔ Food or milk
176. A person with an allergic reaction to a drug develops what? -- Answer ✔✔ Rash and itching
177. Anti-convulsant therapy is the main treatment for what? -- Answer ✔✔ seizures
178. A person is taking gabapentin (Neurontin) and an antacid. When will you give gabapentin (Neurontin)? -- Answer ✔✔ 2 hours after the antacid
179. Which is a benzodiapine? check -- Answer ✔✔ Clorazepate (Tranxene)

180. Opiate agonists are used to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Relieve acute or chronic moderate to severe pain
181. 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
182. A person taking a salicylate should take it with what? -- Answer ✔✔ Food or milk
183. Who decides whether a person is having pain? -- Answer ✔✔ The person
184. A person taking an opiate agonist has constipation. You do the following except what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure vital signs
185. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is used for all the following except what? Fever, headache, muscle pain, and inflammation? -- Answer ✔✔ Inflammation
186. Opiate agonists can cause euphoria. Euphoria is what? -- Answer ✔✔ An exaggerated feeling of well-being
187. Gemfibrozil (Lopid) is given when? -- Answer ✔✔ 30 minutes before the morning and evening meals
188. LDL is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ The bad cholesterol
189. The daily dose of atorvastatin (Lipitor) is what? -- Answer ✔✔ 10 to 40 mg
190. Which drug is a fibric acid? -- Answer ✔✔ Gemfibrozil (Lopid)
191. Common side effects from anti-lipemic drugs are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Nausea and abdominal discomfort

192. Niacin acts as an anti-lipemic because it what? -- Answer ✔✔ Limits the livers ability to produce LDL
193. Statins lower LDL and total cholesterol levels because they what? -- Answer ✔✔ Block the enzyme needed to produce cholesterol
194. Before giving most anti-hypertensive agents, you measure the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Apical pulse
195. Before giving most anti-hypertensive agents, you take the BP in what position? -- Answer ✔✔ Supine and Standing
196. Broncho-dilators are used for what? -- Answer ✔✔ In the treatment of COPD
197. Drugs that cause vaso-constriction of the nasal mucosa are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Decongestants
198. A term for antitussive is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Cough Suppressant
199. The most common side effect from antihistamines is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Sedation
200. A person uses an inhalant cortico-steroid. You observe for what? -- Answer ✔✔ Mouth infections
201. Expectorants? -- Answer ✔✔ Liquify mucus
202. Nasal decongestants promote what? -- Answer ✔✔ Sinus drainage
203. Antihistamines cause what? -- Answer ✔✔ Dry, thick secretions of the mouth, nose, throat, and bronchi
204. Antacids are drugs that do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Buffer, neutralize, or absorb hydrochloric acid in the stomach
205. Drugs that form a substance that adheres to the crater of an ulcer are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Coating agents

206. Drugs that inhibit gastric acid secretion are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Gastro-intestinal prostaglands
207. A person has several drugs ordered. You give the drugs when? -- Answer ✔✔ 1 hour before or 2 hours after giving antacids
208. When you are giving a proton pump inhibitor, the dose form should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Should be swallowed whole
209. 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.
210. The infection that can develop years later for those who have had chicken pox is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ herpes zoster shingles
211. What is the best answer for when infections should be treated with an antibiotic? -- Answer ✔✔ When the infection is caused by bacteria
212. What are common signs of a urinary tract infection in the elderly? -- Answer ✔✔ urgency, burning or pain with voiding, and confusion
213. Anti-emetics are drugs used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Nausea and vomiting
214. Prochlorperazine (Compazine) is a phenothiazine used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Nausea and vomiting
215. Dimenhydrinate (Dramamime), an anti-cholinergic agent, may be used for what? -- Answer ✔✔ Motion sickness
216. You are giving a person a Dulcolax suppository. You expect the drug to act within what time? -- Answer ✔✔ 1-1.5 hours

217. Bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol) does what? -- Answer ✔✔ Absorbs excess water to cause a formed stool
218. Anti-emetics are more effective if given when? -- Answer ✔✔ Before the onset of nausea
219. Benziodiapines reduce nausea and vomiting. They also do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Reduce anxiety associated with chemotherapy
220. A person is taking a stimulant laxative by mouth. This type of laxative acts within what time? -- Answer ✔✔ 6-10 hours
221. Which laxative is a fecal softener? -- Answer ✔✔ Colace
222. Which is a phenothiazine used to control vomiting? -- Answer ✔✔ Prochlorperazine (Compazine)
223. Drugs that lower the blood glucose level are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Hypo-glycemic agents
224. Drugs used to suppress the production of thyroid hormones are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Anti-thyroid agents
225. Low sugar in the blood is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Hypoglycemia
226. Hypoglycemia is caused by what? -- Answer ✔✔ Too much insulin or diabetic drugs
227. Which drug is a first-generation sulfonylurea? -- Answer ✔✔ Chlorpropamide (Diabinase)
228. Blood glucose is highest when? -- Answer ✔✔ After meals
229. Metformin (Glocophage) is what? -- Answer ✔✔ An oral anti- diabetic agent

230. Sulfonylurea agents lower blood glucose by doing what? -- Answer ✔✔ Stimulating the release of insulin
231. The gluco-corticoids do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Regulate carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism
232. Gluco-corticoids are given for what? -- Answer ✔✔ For their anti- inflammatory and anti-allergenic effectd
233. Hormones that maintain fluid and electrolyte balance are called? -- Answer ✔✔ Mineralo-corticoids
234. Hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex of the adrenal gland are called what? -- Answer ✔✔ Cortico-steroids
235. A person has a history of mental health problems. Behavior changes may occur when taking what? -- Answer ✔✔ Cortico- steroids
236. Antiviral drugs are used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Herpes
237. Serious complications of oral contraceptives are what? -- Answer ✔✔ Dizziness and leg pain
238. Tamsulosin (Flomax) is used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia. It does what? -- Answer ✔✔ Causes muscles to relax to allow greater urine flow
239. Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin and Furadantin)is given when? -- Answer ✔✔ Is given every 6 hours
240. The following are given to control over-active bladder except what? Darifenacin (Enablex), Tolterodine (Detrol), Solifenacin (Vesicare), or Norfloxacin (Noroxin)? -- Answer ✔✔ Norfloxacin (Noroxin)

241. A person taking a quinolone antibiotic has hematuria. He or she should drink what? -- Answer ✔✔ 8 to 12 glasses of water daily
242. What is given as a single dose to treat cystitis? -- Answer ✔✔ Fosfomycin (Monurol)
243. Drugs given for over-active bladder syndrome can cause what? -- Answer ✔✔ Dry mouth, constipation, and blurred vision
244. To safely give topical ophthalmic agents, you should do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Wait at least 5 minutes is more than one drug is ordered
245. Osmotic agents are used to what? -- Answer ✔✔ To treat glaucoma
246. 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
247. 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
248. Ophthalmic antibiotics are used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Superficial eye infections
249. Cortico-steroids are used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Allergic reactions of the eye
250. A person has glaucoma. The goal of drug therapy is to do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Reduce intra-ocular pressure
251. Cholinergic agents are used to treat glaucoma because they do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Reduce intra-ocular pressure

252. What is a cholinergic agent used to treat glaucoma? -- Answer ✔✔ Pilocarpine (Pilocar)
253. Adrenergic agents do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Dilate the pupils
254. Eyedrops are applied when? -- Answer ✔✔ Before eye ointments
255. Artificial tears are used to do what> -- Answer ✔✔ Lubricate the eyes
256. Side effects to radiation therapy may include what? -- Answer ✔✔ Burns and skin breakdown
257. 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
258. A person receiving chemotherapy will likely experience what? -- Answer ✔✔ Diarrhea
259. A person with muscle spasticity and a swallowing problem will most likely be ordered what drug? -- Answer ✔✔ Balcofen (Lioresal) oral and disintegrating tablets
260. Colchicine does what? -- Answer ✔✔ Relieves joint pain caused by an acute gout attack
261. Centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants are used to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Relieve acute muscle spasm
262. Baclofen (Lioresal) is given to persons with what? -- Answer ✔✔ Multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries
263. Allopurinol (Aloprim) is given with what? -- Answer ✔✔ With food or milk

264. Centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants act by doing what? -- Answer ✔✔ By depressing the CNS
265. What is a direct-acting skeletal muscle relaxant? -- Answer ✔✔ Dantrolene (Dantrium)
266. After therapy is started, a person receiving colchicine should begin to see symptom relief within how many days? -- Answer ✔✔ 2- 3 days
267. Persons receiving drug therapy for gout should be observed for what? -- Answer ✔✔ GI symptoms
268. 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
269. Side effects of cephalo-sporins may include what? -- Answer ✔✔ Diarrhea and vomiting
270. You are giving a person azithromycin (Zithromax), a macrolide. You should observe for what? -- Answer ✔✔ Nausea and vomiting
271. A person is taking ampicillin (Principen), you should observe for what? -- Answer ✔✔ Diarrhea
272. Quinolones, such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro), are effective in treating what? -- Answer ✔✔ Initial and recurrent UTI's
273. A person taking a sulfonamide should do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Drink lots of water
274. Tetracyclines are given when? -- Answer ✔✔ 1 hour before or 2 hours after ingesting antacids or dairy products

275. What drug is not an anti-tubercular agent? -- Answer ✔✔ Demeclocyline (Declomycin)
276. Metronidazole (Flagyl) is used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Vaginal Infections
277. Vancomycin (vancocin) may cause what? -- Answer ✔✔ Tinnitus and hearing loss
278. Terbinafine (Lamisil) is used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Fungal infections of the toenails and finger nails
279. Acyclovir (Zovirax) is used to treat what? -- Answer ✔✔ Genital Herpes Infection
280. When giving oseltamivir (Tamiflu), you should observe for what? -- Answer ✔✔ Cough and sore throat
281. Anti-bacterial agents destroy what? -- Answer ✔✔ Bacteria
282. Before giving an anti-microbial drug, you always do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Check for allergies
283. Neomycin (Neo-Fradin) can cause what? -- Answer ✔✔ Hearing loss
284. A common side effect of penicillin is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Diarrhea
285. Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) is taken when? -- Answer ✔✔ 2 hours after meals
286. Which drug class may stain teeth if given during tooth development? -- Answer ✔✔ Tetracyclines
287. Isoniazid (INH) is given when? -- Answer ✔✔ On an empty stomach