Karch's Focus on Pharmacology 8th Ed
Exam Questions with Answers
Clinical Pharmacology - Correct Answers: the study of drugs used to treat, prevent, or diagnose disease.
Phase I drug studies involve - Correct Answers: healthy human volunteers who are often paid for their
participation.
The generic name of a drug is - Correct Answers: the original name assigned to the drug at the beginning
of the evaluation process.
An orphan drug is a drug that - Correct Answers: has been tested but is not considered to be financially
viable.
The FDA pregnancy categories were used - Correct Answers: to indicate a drug's potential or actual
teratogenic effects.
The storing, prescribing, and distributing of controlled substances - drugs that are more apt to be
addictive - are monitored by - Correct Answers: the DEA.
Healthy young women are not usually involved in phase I studies of drugs because - Correct Answers:
females are more apt to suffer problems with ova, which are formed only before birth.
A patient has been taking fluoxetine (Prozac) for several years, but when picking up the prescription this
month found that the tablets looked different and became concerned. The nurse, checking with the
pharmacist, found that fluoxetine had just become available in the generic form and the prescription
had been filled with the generic product. The nurse should tell the patient - Correct Answers: that the
law requires that prescriptions be filled with the generic form if available to cut down the cost of
medications.
When teaching a patient about OTC drugs, which points should the nurse include? - Correct Answers: c.
Many of these drugs were once prescription drugs but are now thought to be safe for use without a
prescription when used as directed.
