Question: Harold has persistent asthma. Which medication should be used cautiously?

Answer Choices:
Betamethasone
Salmeterol
Albuterol
Montelukast

Answer: 2. Salmeterol

 

Question: The first sign of a therapeutic effect on a drug concentration curve is:

Answer Choices:
Minimum adverse effect
Peak of action
Onset of action
Therapeutic range

Answer: 3. Onset of action

 

Question: Cultural factors that must be taken into account when prescribing include(s):

Answer Choices:
Who the decision maker is in the family
The patient’s view of health and illness
Attitudes regarding drug use
All of the above

Answer: 4. All of the above

 

Question: Time required for drug concentration to decrease by 50% is:

Answer Choices:
Steady state
Half-life
Phase II metabolism

Answer: 2. Half-life

 

Question: The U.S. FDA regulates:

Answer Choices:
Prescribing of drugs
Official labeling of all drugs
Off-label recommendations
Pharmaceutical education

Answer: 2. Official labeling of all drugs

 

Question: Adverse effects of dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers:

Answer Choices:
Bradycardia
Hepatic impairment

Answer: 2. Hepatic impairment

 

Question: John is allergic to sulfa. He is most likely to have cross-sensitivity to:

Answer Choices:
Loop diuretics
Sulfonylureas
Thiazide diuretics
All of the above

Answer: 4. All of the above

 

Question: ACE inhibitors help treat diabetic hypertension because:

Answer Choices:
• Improve insulin secretion
• Improve renal secretion of potassium
• Reduce angiotensin II
• B and C

Answer: • B and C

 

Question: Amber is a 10 year old with greenish-yellow mucus and low-grade fever. The appropriate antibiotic to prescribe is:

Answer Choices:
Amoxicillin
Amoxicillin/clavulanate
TMP/SMZ (Septra)
None

Answer: 4. None

 

Question: Off-label prescribing is:

Answer Choices:
Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Illegal by NPs in all states (provinces)
Legal if there is scientific evidence for the use
Regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration

Answer: 3. Legal if there is scientific evidence for the use

 

Question: Crushing time-release capsules may result in:

Answer Choices:
Disintegration
Toxicity
Malabsorption
Deterioration

Answer: 2. Toxicity

 

Question: Ethnic differences have been found in drug:

Answer Choices:
Absorption
Hepatic metabolism
Filtration at the glomerulus
Passive tubular reabsorption

Answer: 2. Hepatic metabolism