Basics
The study of drugs and their effect on the body.
What is the definition of pharmacology?
A secondary effect which is not the desired primary effect.
What are side effects?
Drugs approved for sale without a prescription.
What are over-the-counter drugs?
The medical name and abbreviation for taking a pill by mouth.
The steps of the nursing process.
What are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation?
The person who decides what drug to give to a patient.
What is the Prescriber?
The agency responsible for prescription and over-the-counter medications.
What is the FDA?
Category of drugs that are always safe.
What drug category does not exist?
What is sublingual?
The federal agency responsible for prescribed and over-the-counter drugs.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
The person who checks the dose and appropriateness and packages the drug.
Agency tasked with enforcing controlled substance laws.
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)?
The fastest medication route
What is inhalation?
A drug effect that is harmful and not the intended effect.
What are adverse effects?
A warning of serious injury or death.
What are (black) boxed warnings?
The person who gives the drug to the patient.
What is the drug administrator?
The effect which results in by mouth doses needing to be higher.
What the body does to the drug
What is pharmacokinetics?
What the drug does to the body
What is Pharmacodynamics?
Group of drugs that must be double locked up and counted to prevent illicit use.