COURSE
NR565 Advanced Pharmacology Fundamentals
1. Question: What is the most significant clinical pharmacokinetic age-related change seen in older adults?
2. Question: What age group does we use Beer’s Criteria for prescriptive guidance?
3. Question: Understand lipid soluble drugs and what that means in patients with increased total
body fat.
4. Question: Know CYP 450 Inhibitor medications
5. Question: What does it mean if a patient has poor metabolism phenotype?
6. Question: What does it mean if a medicat on is hepatotoxic
7. Question: Know what it means for a medication to be a pure opioid agonist and be able to list
examples of those medications
8. Question: TCAs and SNRIs can treat what types of pain? Know which drugs are in each class
9. Question: Osteoarthritis preferred treatment options?
10. Question: Be able to calculate patient’s overdose risk
11. Question: Understand Methadone and who is at highest risk for fatal dysrhythmias
12. Question: Know when to prescribe naloxone?
13. Question: What is the PEG Assessment Sale?
14. Question: Know the schedules of medications and be able to give examples of each schedule
15. Question: Why wouldn’t a patient with CHF take a CCB?
16. Question: What is the first line for treatment of HTN in a DM patient
17. Question: Understand lab monitoring for ACE-I, Thiazides, and Beta Blockers
18. Question: What is a cardiac glycoside? What is the mechanism of action and effect on patient?
19. Question: Understand contraindications of ACE-I
20. Question: What hyperlipidemia treatments are safe in pregnancy
21. Question: If a patient is on Verapamil and is prescribed Digoxin- what ADR needs to be closely
monitored for
22. Question: Contraindication for Ranolazine?
23. Question: Explain the mechanism of action for NSAIDs
24. Question: Explain mechanism of action for Methotrexate and indication……..$25