The Basics of drugs
Drugs and the body
Toxic effects
Nursing process
Dosage calculation
Challenges
100

The study of the biological effects of chemicals

What is Pharmacology?

100

The way the body deals with a drug is called 

What is pharmacokinetics? 

100

An excessive response to the primary or secondary effect of a drug

What is hypersensitivity?

100

This part of the nursing process includes information gathering regarding the patient's current status

What is assessment?

100

The most widely used system of measure

what is the metric system?

100

Herbs and other natural products that are not controlled by the FDA

What is alternative therapy?

200

Chemicals that are introduced to the body to bring about a change

What are drugs?

200

How the drug affects the body is called 

what is pharmacodynamics? 

200

Formation of antibodies causing a subsequent immune response

What is a drug allergy?

200

Actions undertaken to meet patient needs

What is implementation?

200

One teaspoon is equal to how many ml?

What is 5?

200
This is the use of bacteria, viruses, or parasites to destroy a population

What are biological weapons?

300

Initial trial of a potentially therapeutic chemical, done on animals

What is a preclinical trial?

300

What happens to the drug from the time it is taken until it reaches the fluid and tissues

What is absorption?

300

An infection caused by organisms that are usually controlled by normal flora

What is a super infection?

300

Provides a framework for organizing patient information to implement safe and effective care 

What is the nursing process?

300

This type of administration is always in a liquid form and bypasses the GI system. IV and IM are common examples.

What is parenteral? 

300

non-prescription drugs with no known therapeutic use

What are street drugs?

400
The name of a drug that reflects its chemical structure

What is the chemical name?

400

The movement of a drug into the body's tissues 

What is distribution?

400

When an overdose of a drug causes multi system damage

What is poisoning?

400

Two patient identifiers used to ensure the medication is being given to the correct patient.

What is name and DOB?

400

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?

400

These drugs are deemed safe when used as directed and require no prescription.

What are OTC drugs?

500

Drugs that have adverse effects on the fetus are called 

What is teratogenic?

500

The time it takes for a drug to half its peak level in the body 

What is half- life?

500

This type of reaction can cause rashes and/or hives and be mild or severe. 

What is a dermatological reaction?

500

The best time to document medication administration

What is after administering the medication?

500

The kilogram equivalent to one pound

 What is 2.2?

500

One of the largest influencers of consumers and drug therapy

What is the media?

600

Categorization of drugs that indicate abuse potential and associated regulation

What are controlled substance categories?

600

When a drug no longer causes the same reaction 

What is tolerance?

600

When a patient has renal failure as a result of medication. This would be considered..

What is an adverse event?

600

The purpose of reporting medication errors

What is to prevent reoccurance?


600

This unit is used to measure electrolytes

What is milliequivalents?

600

Three challenges to providing safe medication administration

What are opioid addiction, health insurance, use of alternative medications, mid/dis-information, OTC meds?

700

Plants, animal products, and inorganic compounds 

What are natural sources of drugs?

700

A high dose of medication used to reach critical concentration is called

What is the loading dose?

700

When Benadryl causes drowsiness, this is a likely..

What is side effect?

700

One of the largest causes of patient death in the hospital is this...

What are medication errors?

700

This route of medication administration uses the GI tract.

What is Enteral? 

700

The use of a drug for therapeutic indications that are not stated by the FDA

What is off-label use?

800

This agency is responsible for regulation of drug development and sales

What is the FDA?

800

The amount of a drug needed to cause a therapeutic effect is called

What is critical concentration?

800

Fatigue, drowsiness, anxiety, headache, and cold clammy skin are some of the symptoms of this

What is hypoglycemia?

800

The nurse's responsibility in ensuring medication safety includes ensuring use of these..

What are the "rights" of medication administration?

800

This IV solution set delivers 15 drops/ml

What is Macrodrip?

800

When seeking the accuracy of content found on the internet, these are two ways to evaluate sites

What is address identification and site evaluation?