NURS170 W2 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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What are three ways to avoid medication errors? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Pracitce the
rights of medication administration
2. Perform medication reconciliation
3. Understand medication interactions and pharmacokinetics
What's the prescribed quantity of a medication consisting of the dose and the
frequency ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dosage
Pharmacokinetics is the study of what three things? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Absorption
2. Distribution
3. Metabolism
4. Excretion
,What is defined as the movement of a medication from where it was administered
to the circulatory system ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Absorption
What are factors that affect the rate of absorption ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Route of
administration
2. Ionization
3. Dissolution
4. Blood flow
5. Lipid solubility
6. Surface area of the absorptive site
7. Client-specific factors
What affects the degree of a spit on and the rate at which the drug permeates the
cell membranes which ultimately impacts the distribution of a medication - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Ionization
What is the process where a gaseous, liquid, or solid phase dissolves in a solvent to
form a solution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dissolution
What's a drug form that rapidly dissolves on the tongue or oral cavity - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Orally disintegrating tablets
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, True or false: a medication will be absorbed more rapidly if it is lipid soluble - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔True
What are medications administered via the mouth, stomach, or intestines - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Enteral route
What is the process of medication delivery to the target organ or tissues following
absorption into the circulatory system - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Distribution
What it's he chemical process of converting a medications structure - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Metabolism
Where are medications mostly metabolized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In the liver (kidneys
and sections of the small intestine also play a role)
What is the adverse effect in which the body is unable to metabolize or excrete a
medication and can cause irreversible damage to organs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Toxicity
What contain inactive chemicals that are activated through metabolism to exert
their therapeutic effects - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prodrugs
What is the desired effect of a medication - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Therapeutic effect
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Marking Scheme New Update | A+ Rated
What are three ways to avoid medication errors? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Pracitce the
rights of medication administration
2. Perform medication reconciliation
3. Understand medication interactions and pharmacokinetics
What's the prescribed quantity of a medication consisting of the dose and the
frequency ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dosage
Pharmacokinetics is the study of what three things? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Absorption
2. Distribution
3. Metabolism
4. Excretion
,What is defined as the movement of a medication from where it was administered
to the circulatory system ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Absorption
What are factors that affect the rate of absorption ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Route of
administration
2. Ionization
3. Dissolution
4. Blood flow
5. Lipid solubility
6. Surface area of the absorptive site
7. Client-specific factors
What affects the degree of a spit on and the rate at which the drug permeates the
cell membranes which ultimately impacts the distribution of a medication - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Ionization
What is the process where a gaseous, liquid, or solid phase dissolves in a solvent to
form a solution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dissolution
What's a drug form that rapidly dissolves on the tongue or oral cavity - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Orally disintegrating tablets
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, True or false: a medication will be absorbed more rapidly if it is lipid soluble - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔True
What are medications administered via the mouth, stomach, or intestines - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Enteral route
What is the process of medication delivery to the target organ or tissues following
absorption into the circulatory system - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Distribution
What it's he chemical process of converting a medications structure - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Metabolism
Where are medications mostly metabolized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In the liver (kidneys
and sections of the small intestine also play a role)
What is the adverse effect in which the body is unable to metabolize or excrete a
medication and can cause irreversible damage to organs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Toxicity
What contain inactive chemicals that are activated through metabolism to exert
their therapeutic effects - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prodrugs
What is the desired effect of a medication - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Therapeutic effect
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