N316A Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
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Absorption - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The passage of medication molecules into the
blood from the site of administration
Distribution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔After absorbed, distributed to tissues, organs,
and specific site of action
Metabolism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Biotransformation or chemical alteration of
drug in the body (usually the liver)
Excretion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Removal of the drug from the body (usually
kidneys)
Edema - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Excess of fluid in the ISF and ICF compartments
Primary causes of edema - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Elevated hydrostatic pressure
(increased ECF volume as occurs in heart failure),
Decreased osmotic forces in blood (Hypoalbuminemia, liver failure, protein
malnutrition)
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, Alterations in capillary permeability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔histamine,
inflammation
Sodium retention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔due to illness or consumption of salty
foods, pulls fluid from ICF into ECF
Potassium lab values - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3.5-5.0 mEq/L
Hypokalemia causes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔G - GI loss (vomiting)
O - Osmotic diuresis
T - Thiazide & Loop diuretics
S - Severe Acid Imbalance
H - Hypoaldosteronism
O - Other meds - corticosteroids
T - Transcellular shift
Hypokalemia S/S - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A - alkalosis
S - shallow respirations
I - irritability
C - confusion
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
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Absorption - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The passage of medication molecules into the
blood from the site of administration
Distribution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔After absorbed, distributed to tissues, organs,
and specific site of action
Metabolism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Biotransformation or chemical alteration of
drug in the body (usually the liver)
Excretion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Removal of the drug from the body (usually
kidneys)
Edema - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Excess of fluid in the ISF and ICF compartments
Primary causes of edema - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Elevated hydrostatic pressure
(increased ECF volume as occurs in heart failure),
Decreased osmotic forces in blood (Hypoalbuminemia, liver failure, protein
malnutrition)
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, Alterations in capillary permeability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔histamine,
inflammation
Sodium retention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔due to illness or consumption of salty
foods, pulls fluid from ICF into ECF
Potassium lab values - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3.5-5.0 mEq/L
Hypokalemia causes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔G - GI loss (vomiting)
O - Osmotic diuresis
T - Thiazide & Loop diuretics
S - Severe Acid Imbalance
H - Hypoaldosteronism
O - Other meds - corticosteroids
T - Transcellular shift
Hypokalemia S/S - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A - alkalosis
S - shallow respirations
I - irritability
C - confusion
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