Final Exam: NUR 2474\/ NUR2474
Pharmacology Exam Review| Verified
Questions and Answers| Grade A| Latest
Update 2023\/ 2024| Rasmussen
Q: Why is your pt on nifedipine? This is one drug that helps angina subside
Answer:
Prevent chest pain from occurring, and open up vasodilation, the coronary arteries that feed your
heart
Q: PERIPHERAL VASCULAR RESISTANCEAnswer:
causing the heart not to get enough blood to the coronary arteries, if we relax and smooth out and
vasodilate the peripheral vessels, we will open up coronary arteries better to feed heart and it will
decrease the anginal attacks.
Q: metoprolol- what type of drug is this
Answer:
beta blocker (ends in OLOL)
Q: When do you hold Beta blockers?
Answer:
When your BP is below 90\/60 (hold it if 98\/40, it has to match) and when the PR is less than 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Q: prazosin (Alpha Blockers)-
Answer:
alpha blockers have a very high vasodilator effect. –meaning its going to drop the pressure
quickly.
Q: Patient teaching Prazosin
Answer:
sit down
change position slowly (orthostatic hypotension)
Q: When should you give furosemide as a nurse?
Answer:
In the morning, and before 2 pm Why? Because it takes 4 hours to get out of system. –don’t want
to give it later because you are setting them to fall.
Q: What are some of the things you should remember if you are giving Potassium supplements?
When would you hold?
Answer:
–their potassium levels increase significantly. When would you hold it? When their potassium
level is higher than 5..
Q: Potassium shoudl be taken with what?
Answer:
with meals (hard on stomach)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Q: Can you chew or crush potassium?
Answer:
no
Q: If you give potassium liquid what do you do?
Answer:
mix it with atleast 4 ox of juice
Q: IV potassium
Answer:
mix with lidocaine
Q: What is the antidote for heparin?
Answer:
Protamine Sulfate
Q: What is normal PTT levels?
Answer:
normal range –
Q: If you had a PTT level of 180, what would you do?
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