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The response you get from a drug such as eliminating your headache.
What is therapeutic affect?
This drug name never changes and is considered the official name of a drug.
What is generic name?
This is the general term used to describe the route for any type of injection.
What is parenteral?
This step of the drug journey begins once it is administered until it gets into your bloodstream.
What is drug absorption?
A legal classification to describe controlled substances.
What are scheduled medications?
This describes effects from a drug that were not the reason you took it.
What are side-effects
The name for a group of medications with a common therapeutic effect or drug indication.
What is drug Classification?
This parenteral route goes into the fat layer of the skin and is used for self-injection of insulin
What is subcutaneous?
This describes a drug being delivered to cells by the circulatory system
What is drug distribution?
This term describes effects from a drug that can happen in many different parts of the body.
What are systemic effects?
This describes a negative and possibly dangerous effect from a drug.
What is an adverse reaction?
This term describes the physical nature of a medication, such as suppository, cream, capsule or injection solution.
What is drug form?
This technique is crucial anytime you are delivering medication through a parenteral route.
What is aseptic technique?
This term describes what a drug does to your cells to hopefully provide the desired therapeutic effect.
What is Drug Action?
This body system is responsible for causing an allergic reaction after taking a drug.
What is the immunes system?
Symptom improvement after taking a drug caused solely by the patient's strong belief in their treatment.
What is placebo effect?
The path a medication takes to enter the body, such as oral, intravenous, or subcutaneous.
What is route?
With this parenteral route you would document the words deltoid or vastus lateralis.
What is intramuscular?
This chemical process by the liver breaks down the drug to end its therapeutic effect in the body.
What is drug metabolism?
This describes when a drug's therapeutic effect changes when mixed with another drug or food.
What is a drug interaction?
This term describes the reason we are prescribed a particular drug
What is drug indication?
This term describes the components of a drug that lead to the therapeutic effect.
What are active ingredients
This term describes the protocols we follow in order to keep ourselves and our patients safe.
What are Standard Precautions?
This activity by the kidneys removes the drug from the bloodstream and makes it part of the urine.
What is drug Excretion?
The need to increase a drug dose to achieve the same therapeutic effect as before.
What is drug tolerance?