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joblessjake

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The Food and Drug Administration classifies drugs by category, and these categories and drugs are found in the Orange Book. To find out which drugs treat hypertension, the nurse would look under which classification?
 
  1. Cardiac
  2. Pharmacologic
  3. Disease
  4. Therapeutic

Question 2

The nurse is creating a teaching plan for a client on the cardiac unit and is researching the medications the client is currently taking to understand how each drug produces its effects in the body. To find this information, the nurse looks up which class
 
  1. Therapeutic
  2. Cardiac
  3. Disease
  4. Pharmacologic



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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: There is no cardiac classification.
Rationale 2: The pharmacologic category describes how the drug works, not what condition the drug treats. However, the nurse could determine what condition the drug treats by knowing how the drug works.
Rationale 3: Disease is not a category.
Rationale 4: The nurse would look under the therapeutic category to find out what a drug will treat.
Global Rationale: To find out which drugs treat hypertension, the nurse would look under the therapeutic category to find out what a drug will treat. The pharmacologic category describes how the drug works, not what condition the drug treats. However, the nurse could determine what condition the drug treats by knowing how the drug works. Disease is not a category and there is no cardiac classification.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: The therapeutic classification describes what condition is being treated by a drug, not how the drug works in the body.
Rationale 2: There is no cardiac category.
Rationale 3: There is no disease category.
Rationale 4: The nurse researches the pharmacologic classification to discover how a drug works in the body.
Global Rationale: The nurse researches the pharmacologic classification to discover how a drug works in the body. The therapeutic classification describes what condition is being treated by a drug, not how the drug works in the body. There is no cardiac or disease category.




joblessjake

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
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