NUR 2060. PHARM. Final Exam Review Questions and 100% Verified answers

NUR 2060. PHARM. Final Exam Review Questions and 100% Verified answers What is pharmacotherapeutics? - Correct Answer use of drugs to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or prevent pregnancy. What is pharmacokinetics? - Correct Answer how the drugs moves through the body (i.e. absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) What is pharmacodynamics? - Correct Answer how the drug works in the body What is selectivity? - Correct Answer only elicits response for which it is given, no side effects What is affinity? - Correct Answer strength of attraction What is half-life? - Correct Answer amount of time it takes for ½ of a drug to be out of system What is an antagonist? - Correct Answer a substance that interferes with or inhibits the physiological action of another What is an agonist? - Correct Answer a substance that initiates a physiological response when combined with a receptor What is the minimal effective concentration? - Correct Answer reflects the minimum concentration of drug at the receptor site to elicit the desired pharmacological response What is the ceiling effect with drugs? - Correct Answer the phenomenon in which a drug reaches a maximum effect, so that increasing the drug dosage does not increase its effectiveness What is potency? - Correct Answer the power of something to influence or make an impression What is efficacy? - Correct Answer the ability to produce a desired or intended result What is intrinsic ability? - Correct Answer efficacy refers to the relative ability of a drug-receptor complex to produce a maximum functional response What is bioavailability? - Correct Answer portion or percent of an administered dose of drug that is absorbed and able to cause effect. may be affected by all the factors that affect absorption What patients are most susceptible to medication side effects and why? - Correct Answer --Elderly: due to decline in liver and kidney function