Lehne-s Pharmacology for Nursing Care Terms Chapters 1-3 Exams.docx

Lehne's Pharmacology for Nursing
Care Terms Chapters 1-3 Exams
drug - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A chemical that can
affect the living process


Pharmacology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The study of
drugs and their interactions with living systems


Clinical Pharmacology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
study of drugs in humans


Therapeutics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔AKA
"Pharmacotherapeutics"; The use of drugs to diagnose,
prevent or treat disease or to prevent pregnancy


The BIG Three Characteristics any drug can have -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1) Effectiveness
2) Safety
3) Selectivity


Effectiveness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Effective
Drug= One that elicits responses for which it's given


*Most important property for a drug to have

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Care Terms Chapters 1-3 Exams
Safety - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Safe Drug= One that
can't produce harmful effects even administered in very
high doses for a long time.


*All drugs have the ability to cause injury, especially with
high doses and prolonged use


Selectivity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Selective Drug=
one that elicits only the response for which it's given


There's no such thing as a wholly selective drug because
all drugs cause side effects


Additional Properties of an 'Ideal Drug' - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔1) Reversible Action
2) Predictability
3) Ease of Administration
4) Freedom from Drug Interactions
5) Low Cost
6) Chemical Stability
7) Possession of Simple Generic Names

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Care Terms Chapters 1-3 Exams
Factors that Determine the Intensity of Drug Responses -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ADMINISTRATION
-Med Errors
- Patient Adherence
PHARMACOKINETICS
- Absorption
- Distribution
- Metabolism
- Excretion
*SOURCES OF INDIVIDUAL VARIATION
-Physiologic Variables
-Pathologic Variables
-Genetic Variables
PHARMACODYNAMICS
- Drug-receptor interactions
-Patients functional state
-Placebo effect


Pharmacokinetics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
impact of the BODY on the drugs