Basic Terminology
The process that may involve manipulating deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) and recombining genes into hybrid molecules that can be inserted into living organisms (often Escherichia coli bacteria) and repeatedly reproduced
What is Biotechnology?
The basic requirements for accurate drug administration.
What are the rights of medication administration?
Acquiring and using prescription drugs for nontherapeutic purposes by people who are not authorized to have the drugs or for whom they are not prescribed is
What is misuse (or illegal)?
The four specific process of pharmacokinetics.
What are absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion?
Another way to simply describe pharmacodynamics.
What the drug does to the body?
The manufacturer’s chosen name for a drug, which is protected by a patent and chemical or official name of the drug that is independent of the manufacturer, respectively
What is Brand or Trade name and Generic Name?
For prescription drugs taken orally, the switch to OTC status may mean different "Blank" for use and lower doses.
What is indications?
American consumers can access therapeutic drugs without a prescription by purchasing
What is OTC/Over the counter drugs?
A laboratory measurement of the amount of a drug in the blood at a particular time.
What is a serum drug level?
One of the few drugs that do not use receptor sites on cells that one might use after ingesting spicy food.
What are antiacids?
drugs that are categorized by federal law according to therapeutic usefulness and potential for abuse; also known as scheduled drugs
What is Controlled Substances?
In understanding the use of controlled substances for patients, it is important that the nurse knows that controlled drugs are
scheduled according to medical use and potential for abuse?
Their Main Goal is to Protect the Public, ensuring drugs are safe and effective..
What are FDA/CEDR?
What is first-pass effect?
A special dose at the beginning of drug therapy which is larger than the regular daily dose.
What is a loading dose?
groups of medications that are grouped according to their effects on particular body systems, their therapeutic uses, and their chemical characteristics
What is Drug Classification?
Efforts to improve patient/client safety in medication and drug therapy, strategies such as automatic alerts, automated dispensing devices, bar codes, computerized physician order entry, point-of-care drug resources, and standardizations of processes are important uses of "blank"
What is Technology?
Drugs that are used medically and have high abuse potential..examples: opioids, CNS stimulants, and barbiturate sedative hypnotics..
What are Schedule II?
Also called elimination half-life, is the time required for the serum concentration of a drug to decrease by 50%.
What is Serum half-life?
Drugs that produce effects similar to naturally occurring hormones, neurotransmitters, and other substances, for example, epinephrine-like drugs.
What are Agonists?
often the first drug of a particular drug class to be developed; usually the standard against which newer, similar drugs are compared
A provider writes an order "MS 10mg IV push q 6 hr", what is the potential problem with this order?
What is MS? could be Morphine Sulfate or Magnesium Sulfate, "Do Not Use" list of abbreviations
The law that prohibits fraudulent claims about drug effectiveness
What is Shirley Amendment of 1912?
A client with significant liver disease is likely to have what part of the pharmacokinetic process affected.
What is metabolism?
Drugs that inhibit cell function by occupying receptor sites?
What are Antagonists?