Pharmacokinetics
Describes how a medication enters the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
Drugs that mimic the receptor activity that endogenous compounds regulate.
What is an agonist?
Advil in ibuprofen (Advil)?
What is the brand name?
Drug trials not tested on humans.
What are pre-clinical trials?
Time course of medication used once plateau has been reached.
What is maintenance dose?
Explains why an oral dose of a medication is higher than the IV dose.
What is first pass effect?
The amount of drug given to elicit an effect.
What is potency?
Medications that do not require a prescription.
What are over-the-counter medications?
Regulates the effectiveness and safety of new medications.
What is the FDA?
What is always our priority with medication administration and medication errors?
What is patient safety?
Disease process that alters drug distribution.
What is PVD (peripheral vascular disease)?
Blocks actions of endogenous regulatory molecules.
What is an antagonist?
Results when too much of a drug is given that damages the liver.
What is hepatotoxicity?
Outlined a schedule of medications based on their potential for abuse.
What is the 1970 Controlled Substance Act.
What a nurse should do when unsure about a medication.
What is referencing a drug guide?
Reason why a lower dose of medication may have to be prescribed to avoid adverse effects.
What is liver disease?
The way a drug affects the body.
What is pharmacodynamics?
All anxiolytics share this characteristic.
What are adverse effects?
Drug that is not financially beneficial for drug companies to develop.
Reported increased sleepiness after taking a medication.
What is CNS adverse effect.
What is half-life?
The largest effect that a drug can produce.
What is efficacy?
Describes how drug effectiveness differs across the lifespan.
What is individual variation?
A label given to medications that demonstrate fetal abnormalities if taken by pregnant women.
What is category X?
What is Phase 3?