How Should I Take This? (Drug Routes)
This route usually takes the least amount of time to absorb and distribute medications.
What is intravenous?
Manufacturers of drugs are required by the FDA to include this with their product.
What is a package insert?
This organ is the primary site for metabolism, or inactivation, of drugs.
What is the liver?
This schedule includes drugs that have a very high potential for abuse and are not currently accepted for medical use in the United States.
What is Schedule I?
When two drugs cannot be mixed together because it causes deterioration of the second drug, it is called this.
What is incompatibility?
This route involves intravenous, subcutaneous, and intramuscular injections.
What is parenteral?
CINAHL, Medline, and ProQuest are all types of this resource.
What are electronic databases?
This stage refers to the ways in which a drug is transported throughout the body by the circulatory system to the sites of action or to the receptors that the drugs affect.
What is distribution?
This drug schedule has a low potential for abuse and includes medications like Lomotil, atropine/diphenoxylate.
What is Schedule V?
A physician might order this to check if a drug is in the therapeutic range.
What is a drug blood level?
This route includes medications given orally, through an NG tube, and rectally.
What is the enteral route?
The official name of a drug is listed by this government agency.
What is the US Food and Drug Administration?
This process eliminates the drug metabolites or active drug from the body.
What is excretion?
These scheduled drugs have a high potential for abuse but are accepted for medical use in the United States. They include amphetamines, morphine, Vicodin, Lortab, Norco, Ritalin, and Adderall.
What is Schedule II?
After a nurse administers a drug, the patient develops hives and severe itching, also known as this reaction.
What is an allergic reaction?
This route includes medications given topically, sublingual, and inhalers.
What is percutaneous?
This resource gives articles on new research and nursing considerations with drugs.
What are nursing journals?
This stage involves the release of a drug from its dosage form.
What is liberation?
This scheduled class has a high potential for abuse but less than other drug classes. It includes medications like Tylenol with codeine and Fiorinal.
What is Schedule III?
This is the term used when something unusual or abnormal occurs when a drug is first administered.
What is an idiosyncratic reaction?
A patient takes 50mg of a drug that has a half-life of 12 hours. This is the amount left in the body after 36 hours.
What is 6.25mg?
This is the resource a nurse would use to help recognize a pill that fell on the floor.
What is the Physician's Desk Reference?
This is the process by which a drug is transferred from its site of entry into the body to the circulating fluids.
What is absorption?
This schedule class is a lower potential of abuse and includes medications like phenobarbital, chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, flurazepam, and temazepam.
What is Schedule IV?
A patient who is prescribed warfarin and valproic acid begins experiencing an increased effect of warfarin, also known as this term.
What is displacement?