NURS 6015 Exam 1 (solutions provided)

adverse effects correct answers drug effects, sometimes called side effects that are not the desired therapeutic effects may be unpleasant or even dangerous brand name correct answers name given to a drug by the pharmaceutical company that develop it also called a trade name or proprietary name generic drugs correct answers the original designation that a drug is given when the drug company that developed it applies for the approval process OTC drugs correct answers drugs that are available without a prescription for self treatment of a variety of complaints deemed to be safe when used as directly often formerly only available by prescription phase 1 study correct answers a pilot study of a potential drug using a small number of selected usually healthy human volunteers phase ll study correct answers a clinical study of a proposed drug by selected physicians using actual patients who have the disorder the drug is designed to treat patients must provide informed consent phase lll study correct answers use of the proposed drug on a wide scale in the clinical setting with patients who have the disease the drug is thought to treat phase iv study correct answers continous evaluation of a drug after it has been released for marketing Food and Drug administration correct answers after a chemical that might have a therapeutic value is identified it must undergo a series of scientific test to evaluate its actual therapeutic and toxic effects this process is tightly controlled by the FDA FDA correct answers an agency of the U.S. department of health and human services that regulates the development and sale of drugs before receiving the final FDA approval to be marketed to the public drugs must pass through several stages of development these include correct answers preclinical tries and phase l, ll, and lll studies preclinical trials correct answers chemicals that may have therapeutic value are tested on laboratory animals for two main purposes 1. determine whether they have the presumed effects in living tissue 2. evaluate any adverse effects at the end of the preclinical trials some chemicals are discarded for the following reasons correct answers -chemical lacks therapeutic activity when used with living animals