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Pharmacology 101
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics
Routes of Administration
Drug Classifications
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What is Pharmacology?  

It is the study of drugs―their uses, actions, and adverse effects.  

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What is an Agonist?  

A drug that binds to a receptor site and stimulates a response or action.

100

What is Pharmacokinetics?  

Pharmacokinetics is concerned with the movement of drugs into, throughout, and out of the body.

100

What does route of administration mean?  

route of administration refers to how a medication enters the body

100

What do Bronchodilators treat?  

Dilate the airways of the lungs

200

Pharmaceutical drugs (also referred to as a "medications" or "drugs") treat what?  

The symptoms of diseases, cure diseases, and prevent diseases.

200

What is an Antagonist?  

A drug that binds to a receptor site and blocks the response.

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What is Absorption?

How the drug enters the bloodstream.

200

What are the three routes of medication administration?

  • Oral (Enteral)
  • Parenteral
  • Topical
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What do anticoagulants treat?  

Prevent blood clots

300

What are the three names of drugs?  


Double Jeopardy:

Give one example of a sound-alike brand name.

Chemical Name 

Generic Name 

Brand/Trade Name

300

What is Synergistic?  

Drugs that enhance the effects of other drugs, thereby producing a combined greater effect.

300

What is Distribution?

How the drug travels to its target site.

300

A systemic Drug affects the whole body?  

True

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What do anticonvulsants treat? 

 Prevent seizures

400

What is a Drug Classification?  

Drug classification is a term used to describe medications grouped together based on their chemical structure and the conditions they treat.

400

What is an Additive?  

Adding each drug's effect to the other.

400

What is Metabolism?

Process by which drugs are chemically altered to make them sufficiently water-soluble for excretion.

400

What are the "Seven Rights" of Medication Administration?

The “seven rights” of medication administration:

  1. Right patient
  2. Right medication
  3. Right dose
  4. Right route
  5. Right time
  6. Right documentation
  7. Right technique
400

What does a statin treat?  

Treat high cholesterol

500

What are the different uses for drugs?  

  • Therapeutic use
  • Curative use
  • Preventive use
  • Diagnostic
  • Replacement
500

What is local action?  

Double Jeopardy

What is Systemic action?

The drug primarily acts on the area to which it was administered.

The drug is carried throughout the body via the bloodstream.

500

What is Excretion?  

How the drugs leave the body in either urine or feces.

500

Double Jeopardy

What are the all the routes of medication administration?  

  • Sublingual (SL): placed under the tongue and absorbed directly into the small blood vessels that lie beneath the tongue.
  • Buccal: between the gums and cheek.
  • Rectal: via suppositories or ointment.
  • Vaginal: via suppositories, creams, gels, or rings.
  • Inhalation: aerosols breathed in through the mouth into the lungs.
  • Intranasal: nasal sprays given through the nares.
  • Oral (Enteral): Systemic, through the GI tract
  • Parenteral: Systemic, outside the GI tract
  • Topical: Local, absorbed through outer layers
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What do NSAIDs treat?  

Reduce pain and inflammation