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What are some nursing responsibilities to consider when dealing with drugs?

Ans: - administering drugs
- assessing drug effects
- making the drug regimen more tolerable
- providing teaching
- monitoring overall care to prevent med. error
- must be knowledgeable and up-to-date about new meds

Quiz any chemical that affects the processes of a living organism.

Ans: drug

Quiz the study or science of drugs.

Ans: pharmacology

,Quiz the drug's chemical composition and molecular structure.

Ans: Chemical name

Quiz Name given by the United States Adopted Names Council

Ans: Generic name (nonproprietary name)

Quiz The drug has a registered trademark; use of the name restricted by the drug's owner
(usually the manufacturer).

Ans: Trade name (proprietary name)

Quiz Drug evaluation

Ans: - FDA, agency regulating development and sale of drugs. Designed to ensure safety and
reliability.
- Approx. 5 per 100,000 potential drugs end up being marketed.
- the process is preclinical trail, phase I-III studies, post market approval phase IV study. The
process can take 5 to 6 years with some exceptions.

Quiz Brand name (a) vs. Generic drug (b)
1. active ingredient
2. price
3. insurance coverage
4. inactive ingredient
5. strength/ dosage
6. appearance/ look

Ans: 1. (a) and (b) no difference
2. (a) higher in cost and (b) lower in cost
3. (a) covered if no generic form exists and (b) normally always covered.
4. (a) tested and approved by the FDA and (b) may differ but proven to be acceptable by the
FDA
5. (a) and (b) no difference
6. (a) drugs are standard in size, color, packaging, etc. and (b) packaging and the drug itself
may look different

Quiz DEA schedule

,Ans: schedule I - highest abuse potential + no acceptable use; limited use for research
purposes
schedule II - high abuse potential + accepted use with restrictions
schedule III - medium abuse potential + accepted use
schedule IV - low abuse potential + accepted use
schedule V - lowest abuse potential + accepted use

Quiz the study of what the drug does to the body.

Ans: Pharmacodynamics

Quiz the study of what the body does to the drug.

Ans: Pharmacokinetics

Quiz the study of how various drug forms influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic
activities.

Ans: Pharmaceutics

Quiz the use of drugs and the clinical indications for drugs to prevent and treat diseases.

Ans: Pharmacotherapeutics

Quiz Pharmacodynamics
Drug actions (mechanism of action; MOA)
The cellular processes involved in the drug and cell interaction:

What are some drug effects? (1)

Ans: - to replace or act as substitutes for missing chemicals
- to increase or stimulate cellular activities
- to depress or slow cellular activities
- to interfere with the functioning of foreign cells

(1) the physiologic reaction of the body to the drug

Quiz Pharmacokinetics:
Factors that affect absorption

Ans: - Administration route of the drug

, - Food or fluids administered with the drug
- Dosage formulation
- Status of the absorptive surface
- Rate of blood flow to the small intestine
- Acidity of the stomach
- Status of GI motility

Quiz Pharmacokinetics:
Routes

Ans: a drug's route of administration affects the rate and extent of absorption of that drug.

- enteral (absorbed into the systemic circulation through the oral or gastric mucosa, the
small intestine, or rectum..... oral, sublingual, buccal, rectal)

- parenteral (systemic action, but delivered by routes other than the GI tract.... intravenous,
intramuscular, subcutaneous, intradermal, intrathecal, intraarticular)

- topical (local)Pha

Quiz First - Pass Effect

Ans: the metabolism of a drug and its passage from the liver into the circulation
- oral = may be extensively metabolized by the liver before reaching the systemic circulation
(high first pass effect)
- IV = bypasses the liver, preventing the first pass effect from taking place, and more drug
reaches the circulation

Quiz First - Pass Effect:
Routes that bypass the liver:

Ans: -sublingual. -buccal
-rectal.* -intravenous
-intranasal. -transdermal
-vaginal. -intramuscular
-subcutaneous -inhalation

-rectal route undergoes higher degree of first-pass effects than the other routes listed.

Quiz Oral preparations: list ones that absorb the fastest to slowest

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