NC Medication Aide |2025|
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Caplet - Answer: a capsule shaped pill that is coated to help with ease of swallowing
aerosol spray - Answer: Solution that holds the medication suspended until it is dispensed in the
form of a mist to spray on the skin
neglect - Answer: Failure to provide the standard of care that a person trained in the same way
would do in a certain situation-Failing to give meds prescribed
Diversion - Answer: Giving medication to someone other than client but documenting that
medication was given to client
Fraud - Answer: Dishonest or cheats the system-charting meds as given but did not actually give
medication
Six Rights - Answer: Right Client, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time, Right
Documentation
capsule - Answer: The medication in a liquid, oil, powder, or gel form is held inside a gelatin
container until it dissolved in the stomach
Cream - Answer: Semisolid preparation holding medication so it can be applied to skin
Elixer - Answer: A sweet, good smelling, alcohol based solution in which medications are dissolved,
allowing them to be taken in liquid form by mouth
Enteric-coated tablets - Answer: Hard shell coating on a tablet that keeps the medication from
dissolving until it passes through the stomach into the small intestine. Cutting or crushing these will
destroy the protective hard shell
, Gel - Answer: A clear, semisolid, jellylike solution used to hold medication so it can be applied to the
skin
Inhalant - Answer: Medication forcefully pushed into the lungs via compressed air such as a metered
dose inhaler or a disc device
liniment - Answer: Medication mixed with alcohol, oil, or water which is rubbed on the skin
Lotion - Answer: a medication in a liquid suspension applied to the skin
lozenge - Answer: Medicated tablet or disk that dissolves in the mouth
Ointment - Answer: A semisolid substance for application of medication to the skin or eyes where
it's absorbed
Paste - Answer: semisolid preparation, thicker and stiffer than ointment; absorbed through skin
more slowly than ointment
Patch - Answer: Medication encased in a round, square, or oval disc that is stuck to skin, allowing
medication to be absorbed slowly and regularly from the disc into the blood stream through the skin
Pill - Answer: Mixture of a powdered drug with a cohesive material; may be round or oval
Powder - Answer: A finely ground drug or drugs; some are used internally, others externally
Solution - Answer: Liquid containing dissolved medication
Suppository - Answer: a cone-shaped, solid drug that is inserted into a body opening; it melts at
body temperature
Suspension - Answer: liquid mixture in which particles distributed in the liquid settle out over time
Syrup - Answer: medication dissolved in a concentrated sugar solution
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Caplet - Answer: a capsule shaped pill that is coated to help with ease of swallowing
aerosol spray - Answer: Solution that holds the medication suspended until it is dispensed in the
form of a mist to spray on the skin
neglect - Answer: Failure to provide the standard of care that a person trained in the same way
would do in a certain situation-Failing to give meds prescribed
Diversion - Answer: Giving medication to someone other than client but documenting that
medication was given to client
Fraud - Answer: Dishonest or cheats the system-charting meds as given but did not actually give
medication
Six Rights - Answer: Right Client, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time, Right
Documentation
capsule - Answer: The medication in a liquid, oil, powder, or gel form is held inside a gelatin
container until it dissolved in the stomach
Cream - Answer: Semisolid preparation holding medication so it can be applied to skin
Elixer - Answer: A sweet, good smelling, alcohol based solution in which medications are dissolved,
allowing them to be taken in liquid form by mouth
Enteric-coated tablets - Answer: Hard shell coating on a tablet that keeps the medication from
dissolving until it passes through the stomach into the small intestine. Cutting or crushing these will
destroy the protective hard shell
, Gel - Answer: A clear, semisolid, jellylike solution used to hold medication so it can be applied to the
skin
Inhalant - Answer: Medication forcefully pushed into the lungs via compressed air such as a metered
dose inhaler or a disc device
liniment - Answer: Medication mixed with alcohol, oil, or water which is rubbed on the skin
Lotion - Answer: a medication in a liquid suspension applied to the skin
lozenge - Answer: Medicated tablet or disk that dissolves in the mouth
Ointment - Answer: A semisolid substance for application of medication to the skin or eyes where
it's absorbed
Paste - Answer: semisolid preparation, thicker and stiffer than ointment; absorbed through skin
more slowly than ointment
Patch - Answer: Medication encased in a round, square, or oval disc that is stuck to skin, allowing
medication to be absorbed slowly and regularly from the disc into the blood stream through the skin
Pill - Answer: Mixture of a powdered drug with a cohesive material; may be round or oval
Powder - Answer: A finely ground drug or drugs; some are used internally, others externally
Solution - Answer: Liquid containing dissolved medication
Suppository - Answer: a cone-shaped, solid drug that is inserted into a body opening; it melts at
body temperature
Suspension - Answer: liquid mixture in which particles distributed in the liquid settle out over time
Syrup - Answer: medication dissolved in a concentrated sugar solution
