NURS 6521 Final Exam Study Guide
Final Review for NURS 6521
For all classes of medications, you will need to understand the mechanism of action,
side effects, appropriate use and contraindications for the classes of drugs and
individual drugs listed below. Also, know the key patient education points including
cautions, expected effects, and appropriate use (with food, empty stomach, etc.).
Week 8: Pharmacology for Psychological Disorders
Review for the different classes: How they will affect the patient, side effects (major
side effects), when to use vs when not to use for the following:
• Antipsychotics
• Bipolar medications
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• Sedatives
• Anxiety Medications
• Stimulants like: methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, Adderall, etc.
Week 9: Women’s and Men’s Health
Women’s heath:
• Pregnancy: How does it affect pharmacokinetics, what to stay away from, how do
different trimesters affect the medications, medications to get pregnant,
medications to prevent pregnancy, what is the purpose of oxytocin, bethanechol,
magnesium sulfate in pregnancy and how the effects of these medications during
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• Oral contraceptives, benefits of using one vs another.
• Estrogen/Progesterone Therapy
• Bisphosphonates, alendronate, tests to diagnosis need for these.
• Review following meds:
o cyclophosphamide
o Meridia
o Terbutaline
o oxybutynin
o tolterodine
o radiotherapy
Men’s Health
• Testosterone therapy, different types, when to use, when not use, when to stop
• erectile dysfunction (ED), different medications, when to use one agent over
another, what not to mix with them.
Week 10: Infections and Hematologic Systems
Lots of information to review, want to focus on side effects, use, when to use, when not
to use, difference in treating ethnicities, allergies with antibiotics, which antibiotics to use
with different infections. Infections and treating a diabetic patient, what to watch for.
• Success or failure of a patient’s chemotherapy / targeted therapies /
thrombophlebitis and thromboembolism
• epoetin alfa
• Casodex
• Dronabinol for cancer side effects
• permethrin
• oprelvekin
• silver sulfadiazine
• Neupogen
• quinine
• Infectious Disease:
• Narrow-spectrum antibiotic vs a broad-spectrum drug, what’s the difference?
• Each class of antibiotics and how they are used.
• Antibiotics vs antivirals
• What characteristic of the drug makes it a conjugated drug?
• Antibiotics and antivirals for STI treatment/prevention
• Resistant strains of microbes
• MTX
• Sulconazole
• MRSA
• Permethrin
Week 11: Pediatrics
• What is the effect on children who are prescribed adult medications
• Teaching medication use to parents, kids, etc.
• Medication administration to an infant, children, and adolescents best practiceswhat not to do
• Best ways to reducing drug errors and how to prevent them
• What is the difference between adult and children dosing? NURS 6521 Final Exam Study Guide
Terminology:
• Efficacy
• Pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacodynamics
• Drug tolerance
• Addiction
• Dependence
• Withdrawal
• First pass effect
• Idiosyncratic response
• Medication Reconciliation
Other Topics:
• Which drug classes produce withdrawal if stopped abruptly? When is withdrawal
life threatening? NURS 6521 Final Exam Study Guide
• How can adverse drug events be minimized?
• Why do drugs require clinical study and FDA approval?
NURS 6521 Final Exam Study Guide