NURS 316 CHAPTER 2 Exam Questions
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ideal drug - ✅✅is effective, rapid, predictable, produces no adverse effects,
convenient and infrequent administration, inexpensive and easily accessible,
quickly eliminated by body, no interaction effects.
indications - ✅✅the medical conditions for which a drug is approved; every
drug has at least one, most will have multiple.
unlabelled or off-label indications - ✅✅not approved yet.
therapeutic classification - ✅✅method of organizing drugs based on their
therapeutic usefulness in treating particular diseases.
pharmacological classification - ✅✅refers to the way in which the drug works
at the molecular, tissue, and body system level.
mechanism of action - ✅✅how a drug exerts its effects on the body.
prototype drug - ✅✅well-understood drug model with which other drugs in a
pharmacological class are compared.
chemical names - ✅✅assigned using standard nomenclature established by the
IUPAC; drug has only one chemical name and can be helpful in predicting physical
and chemical properties.
and answers
ideal drug - ✅✅is effective, rapid, predictable, produces no adverse effects,
convenient and infrequent administration, inexpensive and easily accessible,
quickly eliminated by body, no interaction effects.
indications - ✅✅the medical conditions for which a drug is approved; every
drug has at least one, most will have multiple.
unlabelled or off-label indications - ✅✅not approved yet.
therapeutic classification - ✅✅method of organizing drugs based on their
therapeutic usefulness in treating particular diseases.
pharmacological classification - ✅✅refers to the way in which the drug works
at the molecular, tissue, and body system level.
mechanism of action - ✅✅how a drug exerts its effects on the body.
prototype drug - ✅✅well-understood drug model with which other drugs in a
pharmacological class are compared.
chemical names - ✅✅assigned using standard nomenclature established by the
IUPAC; drug has only one chemical name and can be helpful in predicting physical
and chemical properties.
