MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
PROGRAM ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED
QUESTIONS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Administration route
Answer: How the medication is administered forgiven I.e Orally
topically subcutaneous-injection, inhalation,nasal, rectally, vaginally etc.
●● Adult care home
Answer: An assisted living residence in which scheduled and
unscheduled personal care services are provided to two or more
residents, licensed under 131D, includes family care homes
●● Aseptic
Answer: Free of disease-causing organism
●● Cognitive impairment
Answer: Altered ability to think, to reason and/or remember which
interferes with the ability to function normally
●● Controlled substances
,Answer: Potentially dangerous or habit-forming medications whose sale
and use are strictly regulated by law, retrievable records for the receipt,
administration and disposition are required.
●● Disinfect
Answer: To render free from disease-causing organism
●● Expiration date
Answer: Date after which a medication should not be used
●● External medications
Answer: Medications administered on the outside of the body such as
creams ointments or transdermal patches
●● Facility
Answer: An adult care home, includes family care homes
●● Frequency
Answer: How often a medication is administered, e.g., once daily, twice
daily before meals, every four hours as needed for cough, etc
●● Generic medication
, Answer: An often lesser expensive medication that may be deemed
therapeutically equivalent by U.S Food and Drug Administration to a
trade name drug, because it has the same active ingredients and identical
in strength, dosage form and rout of administration
●● Medication administration record (MAR)
Answer: A legal record of the medications administered to a resident,
provides instructions on what, how, and when to administer medications
to a resident based on orders written by the health professionals
responsible for prescribing medications, a document that provides a
location to document the act of administering or not administering a
medication or medications to a resident
●● Medication error
Answer: When a medication is administered in any way other than how
it was prescribed
●● Medication order
Answer: Written or oral direct that a physician or other prescribing
practitioner provides about a resident's medication or medications,
required to administer, change or discontinue any medication to a
resident
●● Ophthalmic
Answer: Related to the eye, usually refers to eye drops or eye ointment
with medication administration
PROGRAM ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED
QUESTIONS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Administration route
Answer: How the medication is administered forgiven I.e Orally
topically subcutaneous-injection, inhalation,nasal, rectally, vaginally etc.
●● Adult care home
Answer: An assisted living residence in which scheduled and
unscheduled personal care services are provided to two or more
residents, licensed under 131D, includes family care homes
●● Aseptic
Answer: Free of disease-causing organism
●● Cognitive impairment
Answer: Altered ability to think, to reason and/or remember which
interferes with the ability to function normally
●● Controlled substances
,Answer: Potentially dangerous or habit-forming medications whose sale
and use are strictly regulated by law, retrievable records for the receipt,
administration and disposition are required.
●● Disinfect
Answer: To render free from disease-causing organism
●● Expiration date
Answer: Date after which a medication should not be used
●● External medications
Answer: Medications administered on the outside of the body such as
creams ointments or transdermal patches
●● Facility
Answer: An adult care home, includes family care homes
●● Frequency
Answer: How often a medication is administered, e.g., once daily, twice
daily before meals, every four hours as needed for cough, etc
●● Generic medication
, Answer: An often lesser expensive medication that may be deemed
therapeutically equivalent by U.S Food and Drug Administration to a
trade name drug, because it has the same active ingredients and identical
in strength, dosage form and rout of administration
●● Medication administration record (MAR)
Answer: A legal record of the medications administered to a resident,
provides instructions on what, how, and when to administer medications
to a resident based on orders written by the health professionals
responsible for prescribing medications, a document that provides a
location to document the act of administering or not administering a
medication or medications to a resident
●● Medication error
Answer: When a medication is administered in any way other than how
it was prescribed
●● Medication order
Answer: Written or oral direct that a physician or other prescribing
practitioner provides about a resident's medication or medications,
required to administer, change or discontinue any medication to a
resident
●● Ophthalmic
Answer: Related to the eye, usually refers to eye drops or eye ointment
with medication administration
