YOOST CHAPTER 35 MEDICATION
ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
QUESTIONS & FLASHCARDS
This essential study guide compiles high-yield review questions,
key concepts, and flashcards covering safe medication practices –
a must-know topic for nursing school exams, skills labs, NCLEX-
RN prep, HESI/ATI testing, and clinical rotations. Key topics
mastered in this chapter review: The Six Rights of Medication
Administration (right patient, drug, dose, route, time,
documentation) + patient right to refuse Medication orders,
abbreviations, and high-alert drugs Pharmacokinetics,
pharmacodynamics, and factors affecting absorption Routes of
administration: Oral, sublingual/buccal, parenteral (IM, SC, IV),
topical, inhalation, and more Safe practices: Three checks, patient
identification, contraindications (e.g., oral meds in unconscious
patients)Injection sites (ventrogluteal preferred, avoid dorsogluteal)
, 1. What is a drug?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: Any substance that can positively or negatively affect a person’s
physiologic function.
Rationale: A drug is any chemical agent capable of altering physiological processes.
2. What is a medication?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: A drug specifically administered for its therapeutic effect on a
person’s physiologic function.
Rationale: Medications are drugs prescribed or administered for diagnostic, therapeutic, or
preventive purposes.
3. Medications can have up to four designations (names). What are they?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: Chemical name, official name, generic name, and trade (brand)
name.
Rationale: These names identify the drug at molecular, regulatory, nonproprietary, and
manufacturer levels.
4. The chemical name of a medication describes what?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: The elements of the medication’s molecular structure.
Rationale: The chemical name provides the precise molecular composition.
5. The official name of a medication is usually the _____ name.
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: Generic name.
Rationale: The official (generic) name is simpler than the chemical name and is assigned by
USAN.
ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
QUESTIONS & FLASHCARDS
This essential study guide compiles high-yield review questions,
key concepts, and flashcards covering safe medication practices –
a must-know topic for nursing school exams, skills labs, NCLEX-
RN prep, HESI/ATI testing, and clinical rotations. Key topics
mastered in this chapter review: The Six Rights of Medication
Administration (right patient, drug, dose, route, time,
documentation) + patient right to refuse Medication orders,
abbreviations, and high-alert drugs Pharmacokinetics,
pharmacodynamics, and factors affecting absorption Routes of
administration: Oral, sublingual/buccal, parenteral (IM, SC, IV),
topical, inhalation, and more Safe practices: Three checks, patient
identification, contraindications (e.g., oral meds in unconscious
patients)Injection sites (ventrogluteal preferred, avoid dorsogluteal)
, 1. What is a drug?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: Any substance that can positively or negatively affect a person’s
physiologic function.
Rationale: A drug is any chemical agent capable of altering physiological processes.
2. What is a medication?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: A drug specifically administered for its therapeutic effect on a
person’s physiologic function.
Rationale: Medications are drugs prescribed or administered for diagnostic, therapeutic, or
preventive purposes.
3. Medications can have up to four designations (names). What are they?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: Chemical name, official name, generic name, and trade (brand)
name.
Rationale: These names identify the drug at molecular, regulatory, nonproprietary, and
manufacturer levels.
4. The chemical name of a medication describes what?
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: The elements of the medication’s molecular structure.
Rationale: The chemical name provides the precise molecular composition.
5. The official name of a medication is usually the _____ name.
➡️ CORRECT ANSWER: Generic name.
Rationale: The official (generic) name is simpler than the chemical name and is assigned by
USAN.
