pharmacology in nursing, questions
with well explained answers
pharmacologic ✅✅grouped according to their psychologic activities and mechanisms
of action
therapeutic ✅✅classified according to their therapeutic uses
chemical ✅✅grouped according to chemical structure
chemical name ✅✅describes drug's chemical components and molecular structure
generic name ✅✅given by US adopted name council and used in official catalogs of
listed drugs
NOT ✅✅generic names are _ capitalized
are ✅✅trade names _ capitalized
trade name ✅✅proprietary name- commercial use restricted to owner/patent
manufacturer of drug
example of class/catergory ✅✅drugs affecting the cardiovascular system
example of therapeutic class ✅✅anti-hypertensive drug
pharmacologic class example ✅✅ace inhibitor
prototype ✅✅individual drug that represents the qualities/features of a group of drugs
1906 federal food and drug act ✅✅protect public from adulterated or mislabeled
drugs
-identify dangerous or addictive drugs
-established official standards
1912 sherley amendment ✅✅prohibited fraudulant claims for drug products
1914 harrison narcotic act ✅✅established legal term narcotic!
regulated production and sale of habit forming drugd
1938 food drug cosmetic act revison ✅✅provide data (testing) proving drug safety
before marketing of new drugs
, 1951 Durham humphrey amendment to FFDCA ✅✅legent/prescription drugs-
prohibited without prescription
narcotics ✅✅need new scripts from MD for refill
1962 kefauver harris amendment to FFDCA ✅✅manufacturer has to provide
research based evidence to prove SAFETY and THERAPEUTIC efficiency of new drugs
-prompted by thalidomide tragedy in Europe
1970 comprehensive drug abuse prevention and control act/ controlled substance act
✅✅schedule of drugs I-V
I= nobody should use
FDA requests ✅✅BLACK BOX WARNING
-patterns of severe reactions to new drugs/voluntary recalls
FDA drug recalls ✅✅class 1- causing death and serious effects
Class 3- least severe
expedited drug approval ✅✅make life saving investigational threapies available
sooner
Purpose of Nurse Practice Act ✅✅protect public from unskilled, undereducated and
unlicensed personell
cellular physiologyq ✅✅drugs are chemicals that must reach and interact with or
cross the cell membranes to
-alter basic physiochemical processes
-stimulate or inhibit normal cellular functions
pharmaceutic phase ✅✅includes how various dosage forms influences the way the
body metabolizes a drug and the way in which the drug affects the body
-disintegration- the process of coming to pieces
-dissolution- cessation
pharmacokinetic phase ✅✅study of what the body does to the drug molecules-
includes processes of the movement of the druge through the body by
-absorption
-distribution
-biotransformation
-excretion
pharmacodynamics ✅✅process by which cell physiology is altered by a drug-
mechanism of action
with well explained answers
pharmacologic ✅✅grouped according to their psychologic activities and mechanisms
of action
therapeutic ✅✅classified according to their therapeutic uses
chemical ✅✅grouped according to chemical structure
chemical name ✅✅describes drug's chemical components and molecular structure
generic name ✅✅given by US adopted name council and used in official catalogs of
listed drugs
NOT ✅✅generic names are _ capitalized
are ✅✅trade names _ capitalized
trade name ✅✅proprietary name- commercial use restricted to owner/patent
manufacturer of drug
example of class/catergory ✅✅drugs affecting the cardiovascular system
example of therapeutic class ✅✅anti-hypertensive drug
pharmacologic class example ✅✅ace inhibitor
prototype ✅✅individual drug that represents the qualities/features of a group of drugs
1906 federal food and drug act ✅✅protect public from adulterated or mislabeled
drugs
-identify dangerous or addictive drugs
-established official standards
1912 sherley amendment ✅✅prohibited fraudulant claims for drug products
1914 harrison narcotic act ✅✅established legal term narcotic!
regulated production and sale of habit forming drugd
1938 food drug cosmetic act revison ✅✅provide data (testing) proving drug safety
before marketing of new drugs
, 1951 Durham humphrey amendment to FFDCA ✅✅legent/prescription drugs-
prohibited without prescription
narcotics ✅✅need new scripts from MD for refill
1962 kefauver harris amendment to FFDCA ✅✅manufacturer has to provide
research based evidence to prove SAFETY and THERAPEUTIC efficiency of new drugs
-prompted by thalidomide tragedy in Europe
1970 comprehensive drug abuse prevention and control act/ controlled substance act
✅✅schedule of drugs I-V
I= nobody should use
FDA requests ✅✅BLACK BOX WARNING
-patterns of severe reactions to new drugs/voluntary recalls
FDA drug recalls ✅✅class 1- causing death and serious effects
Class 3- least severe
expedited drug approval ✅✅make life saving investigational threapies available
sooner
Purpose of Nurse Practice Act ✅✅protect public from unskilled, undereducated and
unlicensed personell
cellular physiologyq ✅✅drugs are chemicals that must reach and interact with or
cross the cell membranes to
-alter basic physiochemical processes
-stimulate or inhibit normal cellular functions
pharmaceutic phase ✅✅includes how various dosage forms influences the way the
body metabolizes a drug and the way in which the drug affects the body
-disintegration- the process of coming to pieces
-dissolution- cessation
pharmacokinetic phase ✅✅study of what the body does to the drug molecules-
includes processes of the movement of the druge through the body by
-absorption
-distribution
-biotransformation
-excretion
pharmacodynamics ✅✅process by which cell physiology is altered by a drug-
mechanism of action
