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
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.
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