Unit 3 - Pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics.
When a drug becomes available to body fluids and tissues.
What is Distribution?
Nitro Dur Patch
Healing modality used instead of Allopathic (western) medicine
What is Alternative?
Main Adverse Reaction
What is Electrolyte Imbalance?
Order: Evista 0.06g po daily
Stock: Evista 60mg tablets
What is 1 Tablet?
What is Pharmaceutics?
Methylcellulose
What is Bulk-Forming Laxative?
Healing modality used along with Allopathic (western) medicine
What is Complementary?
Types of Laxatives
What is Hyper-osmotic, Emollient, Bulk-Forming, Saline, and Stimulant?
Where a drug passes through the liver via the portal vein prior to general circulation
What is the First Pass Effect?
What are these three actions related to
- Receptor
- Enzyme
- Non-Selective
What is Pharmacodynamics?
Diphenhydramine
What is Antihistamine?
- Yarrow
- Douglas fir
- Juniper
What are Indigenous Medicine?
Tablets should only be taken one way
What is whole?
Not crushed or split, especially if enteric coated
Routine, PRN, Single, and STAT
What are Types of Drug Orders?
Determined by Metabolism and Excretion
What is Half-Life?
Cimetidine
What is Antiulcer?
- “Natural” doesn’t always mean safe
- May be unsafe for pregnant, breastfeeding women, infants, and children
- herb-drug interactions
What are Nursing Implications?
Should always be taken with a laxative
What is 180 - 240 mls of water?
-Follow 7 rights
-3 checks
-Don’t allow any other activity to interrupt admin
What are Steps to Prevent Med Errors?
“Free” drugs are able to diffuse into tissues and target cells to make actions.
What is Protein Binding?
Levothyroxine
What is Hormones?
Scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of people and their use of plants
What is Ethnobotany?
- Acute Surgical Abdomen
- Appendicitis
- Fecal Impaction
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Undiagnosed Abdominal Pain
What are Contraindications?
Drugs stored on unit and dispensed to all patients from the same container
What is Stock drug Method?