Pharmy Terms
This term describes the study of how drugs produce their effects on living organisms.
What is Pharmacology?
What is the desired and predictable effect that a medication is expected to produce?
What is therapeutic effect?
Before administering a medication, the nurse checks the patient's allergies. Which component of safe medication administration does this represent?
What is Assessment?
Dissolve in the mouth without water within 60 seconds.
What is Orally Disintegrating?
What is the name given to a drug that is assigned by the manufacturer and is protected by trademark?
What is Trade Name?
The branch of pharmacology focuses on what the body does to a drug.
What is Pharmacokinetics?
Any reaction to a drug that is unexpected and undesirable and occurs at therapeutic drug dosages.
What is adverse drug reaction?
A patient says, "I feel better, so I'm going to stop taking my medication." What should the nurse do?
What is educate the patient?
These forms of injections are absorbed more slowly than if given intravenously.
What is subcutaneous, intradermal, and intramuscular?
What type of drug name is usually lowercase and describes the drug's official, nonproprietary name?
What is Generic Name?
The branch of pharmacology focuses on what a drug does to the body.
What is Pharmacodynamics?
This response can result in reactions ranging from mild to severe, even life-threatening.
What is allergic (or hypersensitivity) reaction?
The four processes of pharmacokinetics.
What are absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
A form of topical drug administration delivered to the lungs.
What is inhalation?
A drug is administered to prevent a disease from occurring rather than treating an existing disease. What type of therapy is this?
What is Prophylactic Therapy?
The time required for one-half of the given drug to be removed from the body.
What is Half-life?
A patient has been taking a medication for several months and now requires a higher dose to achieve the same therapeutic response. What phenomenon has developed?
What is Tolerance?
A patient has significant liver dysfunction. Which pharmacokinetic process should the nurse be particularly concerned about?
What is Metabolism?
A patient needs a medication that must produce a rapid systemic effect. This route would generally provide the most rapid onset.
What is Intravenous?
Used to describe drug concentrations, which are usually measured from blood samples.
What are peak and trough levels?
The length of time that the drug concentration is sufficient to elicit a therapeutic response.
What is Duration of Action?
Occurs when two drugs administered together interact in such a way that their combined effects are greater than the sum of the effects for each drug given alone.
What is Synergistic effects?
A patient has impaired kidney function. Which process may be affected, potentially causing medication to accumulate in the body?
What is Excretion?
Medications given by the parenteral route have the advantage of bypassing this.
What is first-pass effect of the liver?
Refers to the effect of a patient's age, gender, size, body composition, and other characterists on the pharmacokinetics of specific drugs.
What is drug polymorphism?