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
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.
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