An overwhelmed nursing student asks the instructor whether there are any tips that will make learning pharmacology easier. The instructor gives an example of the anticoagulant heparin
The instructor indicates that knowing heparin and comparing other drugs to it will facilitate learning the many anticoagulants. Which approach is the instructor using?
1. Mechanism of action approach
2. Generic name approach
3. Trade name approach
4. Prototype drug approach
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale: Heparin is the generic name, but comparing one well-understood drug with others in the same class is known as the prototype approach. (pp. 12—13)
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1. Transduction. 2. Transmission. 3. Perception. 4. Modulation.
The nurse recognizes that a patient with rheumatoid arthritis will demonstrate the diagnostic characteristic of this disorder, which is:
1. absence of pain. 2. symmetric bilateral joint swelling. 3. evening stiffness that improves with activity. 4. increased appetite.
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A patient being treated for a sleep disorder reports no change in the ability to sleep through the night. What should the nurse assess first with this patient?
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