Pharmacy Etiquette
The branch of medicine that studies the uses and effects of drugs.
What is Pharmacology?
In pharmacology, how a drug exits the body.
What is Excretion?
I am the most common loop diuretic
Who is furosemide?
I am a warning on a drug label to alert medical professionals to serious risks or side effects
What is a black box drug?
The most common route of medication administration.
What is Oral?
I decrease the effects of chemo induced nausea by blocking the effects of seratonin at receptor sites in the chemoreceptor trigger zone in the CNS
What is Ondansetron (Zofran)?
The study of how a person's genes affect the way medications work in his body.
What is Pharmacogenetics?
In pharmacology, the process of giving a drug to a person.
What is Administer?
I am a bronchodilator commonly used to treat COPD.
Who is Albuterol?
These are important to ask a patient prior to medication administration to prevent errors
What are two patient identifiers?
A medication route in which the drug is applied to a body surface.
What is Topical?
I am given to patients who have pancreatitis. I work by increasing digestion of fats, carbs and protein in the GI tract. You must give me immediately before or with meals.
What is pancrelipase?
Changes caused by a medication that do not relate to its intended purpose.
What are Side Effects?
In pharmacology, how a drug moves from where it is administered to the bloodstream; in more general terms, refers to the transfer of nutrients from the intestines to the cells.
What is Absorption?
I am commonly used for patient's undergoing chemotherapy to control the side effects of nausea
Who is Ondansetron (Zofran)?
I am administering Metoprolol. I will do this prior to administration
What is take an apical pulse for 60 seconds and a current blood pressure?
Administration route in which medication is placed in the nose.
What is Nasal Route?
I am a type of pain control for patients with cancer. I am a delayed release medication and the patient will absorb 92% of my dose through the skin, providing continuous delivery for 72 hours.
What is a fentanyl patch?
The study of how a drug affects the body .
What is Pharmacodynamics
In pharmacology, how a drug moves from the bloodstream to the tissues of the body.
What is Distribution?
I am used to dilate the coronary arteries when a patient is having chest pain (angina)
Who is Nitroglycerin?
This system was invented to help decrease medication errors to correctly identify patients and the medications we are administering
What is barcode scanning?
Administration route in which medication is placed in the ear.
What is Otic Route?
I inhibit release of mediators of immediate hypersensitivity reactions from mast cells. I can be given in emergent reaction situations.
What is epinephrine?
The study of how drugs are processed by the body.
What is Pharmacokinetics
In pharmacology, how a drug is broken down by the body.
What is Metabolism?
Mrs. Ramos always says to give me to decrease oxygen demand
Who is Morphine?
Every medication order received from a physician should have these 4 components.
What is name of drug, dose of drug, route of drug and frequency of drug?
Administration route in which medication is placed in the eye.
What is the ocular route? Also called Optic Route or Ophthalmic Route.
I bind to an enzyme in the presence of acidic gastric pH, preventing the hydrogen ions into the gastric lumen. I am given for prophylaxis to patients who are admitted to the hospital.
What is pantoprazole (protonix)?
This is an unintentional or unexpected reaction to drug therapy that occur at normal drug doses
What is an adverse reaction?
The time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to be reduced by half
What is the half-life?
I can be given when a patient has an allergic reaction caused by histamine release
What is diphenhydramine (Benadryl)?
Glipizide and Glyburide, Captopril and Carvedilol, Ephedrine and Epinepherine, Humalog and Humulin. These are all examples of ____________ drugs.
What are S.A.L.A.D’s (sound alike look alike drugs)?
Medication route that can be absorbed under the tongue
What is sublingual?
I inhibit pituitary function resulting in increased appetite and weight gain in patients with endometrial and breast carcinoma
What is megestrol (Megace ES)?
This occurs when drug levels exceed the therapeutic range
What is drug toxicity?
This is the highest plasma concentration of a drug at a specific time
What is the peak drug level?
I am an anti-infective medication that can be given to treat C. Difficile and H. Pylori type bacteria
What is metronidazole (Flagyl)?
This sticker is put on IV tubing for all providers to see that the medication is a dangerous medication that can cause harm if not managed correctly. (You will see a lot of these next semester)
What is a high-alert sticker?
Lovenox is given using this route of administration
What is subcutaneous?
I am a combo drug that converts to dopamine is the CNS and my other drug prevents my destruction in the body. I am used to control tremors in Parkinson’s disease.
What is carbidopa/levadopa?