EVCC NURS 120 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2025 A+

EVCC NURS 120 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2025 A+ 1. Pharmacology: study of drugs and their effects on the body 2. Drug Therapy: use of drugs to prevent, diagnose, or treat signs, symptoms, and disease processes ex: Coffee used for headache, juice used to increase blood sugar 3. Medications: drugs given for therapeutic purposes 4. local effects of medications: act mainly at the site of application 5. systemic effects of medications: taken into the body, circulated via the blood stream to sites of action, and eventually eliminated from the body 6. Drug Sources: Plants: "Original" source of medications since prehistoric times Modern times utilize plant derivatives for drug therapy 7. Drug Sources - Animals: - very few drugs- made from fluids, tissues, organs, or glands of animals ex: premarin 8. Drug Sources - Minerals: natural drug sources ex: potassium, sodium chloride, zinc 9. drug sources: synthetic compounds: -Majority of today's medications-Technological advances allow manufacturers to develop drugs that: •Target disease more specifically •Produce fewer toxicities 10. Drug classification: