Exam 2: Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology

Azithromycin dosing requires that the first day's dosage be twice those of the other 4 days of the prescription. This is considered a loading dose. A loading dose:

The route of excretion of a volatile drug will likely be the:

An advantage of prescribing a sublingual medication is that the medication is:

Medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera) is prescribed intramuscularly (IM) to create a storage reservoir of the drug. Storage reservoirs:

Factors that affect gastric drug absorption include:

Which of the following substances is the most likely to be absorbed in the intestines rather than in the stomach?

Actions taken to reduce drug-drug interaction problems include all of the following EXCEPT:

The major reason for not crushing a sustained-release capsule is that, if crushed, the coated beads of the drugs could possibly result in:

Instructions to a client regarding self-administration of oral enteric-coated tablets should include which of the following statements?

The NP chooses to give cephalexin every 8 hours based on knowledge of the drug's:

Drugs are metabolized mainly by the liver via phase I or phase II reactions. The purpose of both of these types of reactions is to:

All drugs continue to act in the body until they are changed or excreted. The ability of the body to excrete drugs via the renal system would be increased by:

A patient's nutritional intake and laboratory results reflect hypoalbuminemia. This is critical to prescribing because:

Phase I oxidative-reductive processes of drug metabolism require certain nutritional elements. Which of the following would reduce or inhibit this process?