Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Chemical name - ✔✔✔Drugs chemical composition
Nonproprietary name - ✔✔✔Generic name
Proprietary name - ✔✔✔Trade name
Generic equivalent - ✔✔✔Copycat drug produced by different manufacturer after original
patent expires
Solids - ✔✔✔Tablets, capsules, etc
Suppositories - ✔✔✔Inserted into rectum and dissolved
Solutions - ✔✔✔Drug dissolved in liquid
Suspensions - ✔✔✔Drug suspended but not dissolved in liquid
Syrups - ✔✔✔Solutions of drugs with water and sugar
Elixirs - ✔✔✔Solutions of drugs dissolved in sweetened alcohol
Tinctures - ✔✔✔Topical alcohol solutions
Liniments - ✔✔✔Topical drug in an oil base
, Lotion - ✔✔✔Topical drug suspensions or solutions
Ointments/ creams - ✔✔✔Semisolid topical dosage forms
Pastes - ✔✔✔Semisolid oral dosage forms
Injectable drugs - ✔✔✔Administered by needle and syringe
Repository injectable drugs - ✔✔✔Formulated for prolonged absorbtion
Implants - ✔✔✔Solid dosage forms, injected/ inserted under skin
Common needle sizes - ✔✔✔3, 6, 12, 20, 35, 60 ml
Tuberculin needles - ✔✔✔1 ml dose
Insulin needles - ✔✔✔.25 gauge needle
Parts of needle & recognize - ✔✔✔Hub, shaft, bevel
Gauges - ✔✔✔16-25
**Know Types of Syringes** - ✔✔✔Leur lock, slip tip, eccentric tip, catherder tip
SID - ✔✔✔Single
BID - ✔✔✔Twice
TID - ✔✔✔Three