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UNDERSTANDING
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Essentials for Medication Safety
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,Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 2nd Edition TL
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Table of Contents:
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Chapter 1. Drug Regulation, Actions, and Responses
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Chapter 2. Safely Preparing and Giving Drugs
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Chapter 3. Mathematics Review and Introduction to Dosage Calculations
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Chapter 4. Medical Systems of Weights and Measures
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Chapter 5. Dosage Calculation of Intravenous solutions and Drugs
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Chapter 6. Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
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Chapter 7. Drugs for Pain Control
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Chapter 8. Anti-Infectives: Antibacterial Drugs
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Chapter 9. Anti-Infectives: Antiviral Drugs
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Chapter 10. Anti-Infectives: Antitubercular and Antifungal Drugs
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Chapter 11. Immunizations
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Chapter 12. Anticancer Drugs
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Chapter 13. Drug therapy for Diabetes
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Chapter 14. Drug Therapy for Thyroid and Adrenal Gland Problems
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Chapter 15. Drug Therapy Affecting Urine Output
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Chapter 16. Drug Therapy for Hypertension
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Chapter 17. Drug Therapy for Heart Failure
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Chapter 18. Drug Therapy for Dysrhythmias
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Chapter 19. Drug Therapy for High Blood Lipids
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Chapter 20. Drug Therapy to Disrupt Clotting
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Chapter 21. Drug Therapy for Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,
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Chapter 22. Drug Therapy for Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
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Chapter 23. Drug Therapy for Gastric Ulcers and Reflux
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Chapter 24. Drug Therapy with Nutritional Supplements
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Chapter 25. Drug Therapy for Seizures
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Chapter 26. Drug Therapy for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases
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Chapter 27. Drug Therapy for Psychiatric Problems
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Chapter 28. Drug Therapy for Insomnia
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Chapter 29. Drug Therapy for Eye Problems
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Chapter 30. Drug Therapy for Osteoporosis and Muscle Relaxation
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Chapter 31. Drug Therapy for Male Reproductive Problems
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Chapter 32. Drug Therapy for Female Reproductive Problems
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,Chapter 01: Drug Regulation, Actions, and Responses
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prescribed drugs under the direction of a pharmacist?
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a. Physician
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not dispensing them. The licensed nurse has the primary responsibility for administering
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drugs, although under some circumstances a licensed nurse may dispense prescribed drugs
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but this is not his or her major responsibility in drug therapy. The pharmacy technician
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has the major responsibility of dispensing prescribed drugs under the direction of a
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licensed pharmacist.
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2. Which term describes the effect of a drug that improves body function? TL
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d. Idiosyncratic response TL
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The purpose of drug therapy is to take a drug to prevent, reduce, or correct a health
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problem. This response is any drug’s intended action also known as a therapeutic
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3. Which type of drug name is “owned” by the company that manufactures it? YF
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The chemical name is a drug’s exact chemical composition. The generic name is the
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name assigned to the drug by the U.S. Adopted Names Council and is not owned by
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anyone. The category name refers to the type of drug (what it does or what it is used for)
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and is not an actual drug name. The trade name (brand name) is the name provided and
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owned by a specific drug’s manufacturer.
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A high alert drug is one in which harm is likely to result if given at the wrong dose, to
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the wrong patient, or not given to the correct patient. Drugs classified as high alert drugs
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include potassium, narcotics (opioids), insulin, cancer chemotherapy drugs, and heparin (or
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