The Basics of drugs
The study of the biological effects of chemicals
What is Pharmacology?
The way the body deals with a drug is called
What is pharmacokinetics?
An excessive response to the primary or secondary effect of a drug
What is hypersensitivity?
This part of the nursing process includes information gathering regarding the patient's current status
What is assessment?
The most widely used system of measure
what is the metric system?
Herbs and other natural products that are not controlled by the FDA
What is alternative therapy?
Chemicals that are introduced to the body to bring about a change
What are drugs?
How the drug affects the body is called
what is pharmacodynamics?
Formation of antibodies causing a subsequent immune response
What is a drug allergy?
Actions undertaken to meet patient needs
What is implementation?
One teaspoon is equal to how many ml?
What is 5?
What are biological weapons?
Initial trial of a potentially therapeutic chemical, done on animals
What is a preclinical trial?
What happens to the drug from the time it is taken until it reaches the fluid and tissues
What is absorption?
An infection caused by organisms that are usually controlled by normal flora
What is a super infection?
Provides a framework for organizing patient information to implement safe and effective care
What is the nursing process?
This type of administration is always in a liquid form and bypasses the GI system. IV and IM are common examples.
What is parenteral?
non-prescription drugs with no known therapeutic use
What are street drugs?
What is the chemical name?
The movement of a drug into the body's tissues
What is distribution?
When an overdose of a drug causes multi system damage
What is poisoning?
Two patient identifiers used to ensure the medication is being given to the correct patient.
What is name and DOB?
This rule is used to calculate dosage for a pediatric patient by dividing the age in months and multiplying by the adult dose.
What is The Fried rule?
These drugs are deemed safe when used as directed and require no prescription.
What are OTC drugs?
Drugs that have adverse effects on the fetus are called
What is teratogenic?
The time it takes for a drug to half its peak level in the body
What is half- life?
This type of reaction can cause rashes and/or hives and be mild or severe.
What is a dermatological reaction?
The best time to document medication administration
What is after administering the medication?
The kilogram equivalent to one pound
What is 2.2?
One of the largest influencers of consumers and drug therapy
What is the media?
Categorization of drugs that indicate abuse potential and associated regulation
What are controlled substance categories?
When a drug no longer causes the same reaction
What is tolerance?
When a patient has renal failure as a result of medication. This would be considered..
What is an adverse event?
The purpose of reporting medication errors
What is to prevent reoccurance?
This unit is used to measure electrolytes
What is milliequivalents?
Three challenges to providing safe medication administration
What are opioid addiction, health insurance, use of alternative medications, mid/dis-information, OTC meds?
Plants, animal products, and inorganic compounds
What are natural sources of drugs?
A high dose of medication used to reach critical concentration is called
What is the loading dose?
When Benadryl causes drowsiness, this is a likely..
What is side effect?
One of the largest causes of patient death in the hospital is this...
What are medication errors?
This route of medication administration uses the GI tract.
What is Enteral?
The use of a drug for therapeutic indications that are not stated by the FDA
What is off-label use?
This agency is responsible for regulation of drug development and sales
What is the FDA?
The amount of a drug needed to cause a therapeutic effect is called
What is critical concentration?
Fatigue, drowsiness, anxiety, headache, and cold clammy skin are some of the symptoms of this
What is hypoglycemia?
The nurse's responsibility in ensuring medication safety includes ensuring use of these..
What are the "rights" of medication administration?
This IV solution set delivers 15 drops/ml
What is Macrodrip?
When seeking the accuracy of content found on the internet, these are two ways to evaluate sites
What is address identification and site evaluation?