6521 Advanced Pharmacology Final 2025

6521 Advanced Pharmacology Final 2024 exam The nurse is caring for a patient on a medical-surgical unit who has a fever of unknown origin. The prescriber has ordered a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Which intervention is the priority? - ANSWER>>Obtaining all cultures before the antibiotic is administered The nurse has been caring for a patient who has been taking antibiotics for 3 weeks. Upon assessing the patient, the nurse notices the individual has developed oral thrush. What describes the etiology of the thrush? - ANSWER>>Superinfection A child has received amoxicillin [Amoxil] for three previous ear infections, but a current otitis media episode is not responding to treatment. The nurse caring for this child suspects that resistance to the bacterial agent has occurred by which microbial mechanism? - ANSWER>>Drug inactivation A recent campaign, initiated by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to delay the emergence of antibiotic resistance in hospitals, has what as one of its objectives? - ANSWER>>Increased adherence to prescribed antibiotics A nursing student asks a nurse to clarify the differences between the mechanisms of spontaneous mutation and conjugation in acquired resistance of microbes. What will the nurse say? - ANSWER>>Spontaneous mutation leads to resistance to only one antimicrobial agent. A