Nur 635 Mid-Term Exam With Complete Solution (100% Verified)

Nur 635 Mid-Term Exam With Complete Solution (100% Verified)
1. Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the treatment of Parkinson's
Disease
Bromocriptine
2. What medication may cause serious or possibly life-threatening sleep
behaviors, such as sleep driving?
Ambien
3. Taking too much of this type of drug can make you "blind as a bat" or "mad
as a hatter"
Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics
4. Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion
Pharmacokinetics
5. Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis
Neostigmine, pyridostigmine
6. This drug has a very narrow therapeutic index and high risk for toxicity,
therefore levels should be monitored frequently
Lithium
7. The drug class that carries an increased risk of suicidality in children,
adolescents, and young adults
SSRIs/SNRIs
8. The antidote for organophosphate poisoning
Atropine
9. This drug class double the rate of mortality in older adults with dementia
Antipsychotics