Pharm Latest Exam 1 Review.

Pharm Latest Exam 1 Review. I. Objectives (There will be test questions take from each of the objectives) After you complete this module you will be able to:  Describe the key concepts of Pharmacokinetics and the impact on providing safe, effective patient care. o Absorption o Distribution o Metabolism o Excretion o Half-life – how rapidly the amount of a drug is removed from the body; time required for a drug to decrease by 50% within the body (i.e. morphine = 3 hours) o Onset – time when drug will achieve therapeutic effects within the body o Peak – highest level of drug in the body (30 minutes after) o Duration – length of time therapeutic effect will be displayed in the body  Describe the key concepts of Pharmacodynamics and the impact on providing safe, effective patient care: o Mechanism of Action – biochemical interaction of how a drug produces its desired effect o Drug Effects o Therapeutic uses o Side and Adverse Effects o Interactions  Discuss the key terminology listed below:  Drug – chemical affecting living processes  Pharmacology – study of drugs and their interactions with living systems  Clinical Pharmacology – study of drugs in humans  Therapeutics – pharmacotherapeutics: use of drugs to diagnose, prevent disease or pregnancy, medical use of drugs  Ideal drug – effectiveness and safety, there is no such thing as a perfect drug  Effectiveness – elicits response for reason given  Safety – minimum harmful effects  Selectiveness – selectivity: no side effects, not realistic  Therapeutic Objective – to provide maximum benefit with minimal harm  Pharmacokinetics – drug movement through the body (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion)  Pharmacodynamics – the study of what drugs do to the body and how they do it  Therapeutic Response  Adverse effect – harmful, unintended, and undesired effect that occurs at normal drug doses  Adverse interaction