Med-ication-Nation
A dangerous or unwanted side effect of a medication
What is an adverse effect?
A transparent moulded piece of plastic with multiple compartments, sealed to a sheet of cardboard with a foil backing, used to package individual-dose medications. Also known as a bubble pack.
What is a blister pack?
Exiting from the body, especially through the stool, urine, lungs, or skin.
What is excretion?
A response to a medication that occurs in addition to the intended or main response
What is a side effect?
Flat disc containing medication in a flavoured base
What is a lozenge?
Herbal or other “natural” products that do not require a physician’s prescription.
What are alternative remedies?
The path the drug takes from the bloodstream to the body tissues of the intended site of action
What is distribution?
The name given to a drug approved by Health Canada. It is also known as the “official name” of a drug
What is the generic name of a drug?
Causing a desired, positive effect in the body
What is a therapeutic effect?
Medication dissolved in liquid containing alcohol or water and flavourings
What is an elixir?
A severe allergic reaction that occurs rapidly and causes a life-threatening response involving the whole body.
What is anaphylaxis?
An unusually weak drug effect that occurs when two or more drugs are taken at the same time.
What is drug antagonism?
Chemical reactions that take place to convert a drug from smaller molecules into waste products before it can exit the body.
What is metabolization?
The name given to a drug by the manufacturer. Also known as proprietary name.
What is a trade name of a drug?
Medication on a small disc or patch that is applied to unbroken skin
What are transdermal discs or patches?
A substance, usually a protein, that the body recognizes as foreign and that can evoke an immune response
What is an antigen?
The combined action that a medication and another substance (such as another drug, alcohol, or food) has on the body.
What is a drug interaction?
A pressurized canister of medication that releases a single dose of medication as a mist
What is a metered-dose inhaler (MDI)?
As a support worker, your role in medication management depends on these 3 principles
your provincial or territorial legislation, your employer’s policy, and your training and education
Route(s) Solid form of medication for insertion
What are rectal or vaginal? (suppositories)
A category of cytotoxic drugs that is used to control or kill cancer and other fast-dividing cells. Also called chemotherapy drugs
What are antineoplastic drugs?
An unusually strong drug effect that occurs when taking two or more drugs at the same time
What is drug synergism?
The use of more medications by a client than is medically required
What is polypharmacy?
Name three (3) S/S of anaphylaxis
Severe restlessness, Increased anxiety, Possible combativeness (from struggling to breathe), Sweating, Shortness of breath, Low blood pressure, Irregular pulse, Respiratory congestion, Swelling of the larynx (laryngeal edema) Hoarseness, Dyspnea
The route: Liquid to be injected into muscle (intramuscular), a vein (intravenous), or under the skin (subcutaneous)
what is parenteral?