Safe Med Admin.
Phase of nursing process where the nurse gathers data regarding a medication and a dietary history.
What is assessment?
The process of drug movement throughout the body that is necessary to achieve drug action.
What is Pharmacokinetics
How medication changes the body
What is pharmacodynamics
The time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to be reduced by half.
What is half-life?
Overprescribing occurs commonly in older adults, leaving them at risk for this.
What is polypharmacy?
A pharmacokinetic process that is altered with a decrease in liver function.
What is metabolism?
Drugs that prevent receptor activation and block a response.
What is antagonists?
This occurs when the body becomes accustomed to the effects of a particular drug over a period of time.
What is drug tolerance?
In this phase of the nursing process, the nurse completes the medication checks and medication rights.
What is implementation?
Decreased renal blood flow will affect this pharmacokinetic process, which increases the risk of toxicity in the elderly.
What is elimination?
Mild, predictable, secondary effects of drug therapy
What are side effects?
Your client is likely having this kind of adverse drug reaction if you notice a rash, fever, and vomiting after administration.
What is an allergic reaction?
The elderly often require higher doses of medications in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. True or False?
What is False.
The process of drugs entering the bloodstream, circulating in the body, and being delivered to sites of action.
What is distribution.
Unintended, harmful effects of a medication that require discontinuation of the drug.
What is an adverse drug reaction?
This term refers to an oral drug that is metabolized to an inactive form before it has an opportunity to reach target cells.
What is first pass effect?
This most serious type of adverse drug reaction results in severe respiratory distress, bronchospasm and cardiac collapse.
What is anaphylaxis?
This pharmacokinetic process is affected by the route of administration, blood flow and pH, and drug-food interactions.
What is absorption?
Drugs that activate receptors and produce a desired response.
What are agonists?
Another name for metabolism
What is biotransformation?