The nurse educator is teaching a group of nurses about various pharmaceutical agents

The group begins discussing drugs for erectile dysfunction. Which statement by one of the nurses best demonstrates understanding of these drugs? "The division of the nervous system that is physiologically the most involved with erection is the _____ division."
a. parasympathetic
b. sympathetic
c. autonomic
d. somatic


ANS: A
Sexual arousal increases parasympathetic nerve traffic to the penis.
These divisions of the nervous system are not physiologically most involved with erection.

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