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Actions and Interactions
Definitions, names, and standards
Mathematics
Medication Safety
Across the Life Span
100
What is half-life?
What is the amount of time it takes 50% of the drug to be eliminated from the body?
100
What is included in the data collection phase pertaining to pharmacology?
What is drug history?
100
3 of 3/4
What is the numerator?
100
1) What are six rights of medication administration?
What is right drug, right time, right dose, right patient, right route, and right documentation?
100
What can impact drug absorption?
What is age and gender?
200
What is an unintended, and undesired effect of a drug?
What is adverse effects?
200
What the name of a drug that is not capitalized and can be used by any manufacturer?
What is generic?
200
4 of 3/4
What is the denominator
200
What three times should the drug label be read?
What is before removing the drug from cart, before preparing actual dose, and before opening a unit dose container?
200
What is the measurement of the drug's concentration in biologic fluid to establish appropriate dosage of medications?
What is therapeutic drug monitoring?
300
What are age, body weight, metabolic rate, illness, psychological aspects, tolerance, dependence, and cumulative effects?
What variable factors that influence drug action?
300
How are drugs classified?
What are by body system, therapeutic use or clinical indications, and physiologic or chemical action?
300
.75
What is 3/4
300
What is the process of comparing a patient's current medication orders with the medication they are currently taking?
What is medication reconciliation?
300
What is the process whereby the body inactivates medications and is affected by age and gender?
What is drug metabolism?
400
What is additive effect?
What happens when two drugs with similar actions are taken for a doubled effect?
400
What does the FDA do?
What is determining the safety of drugs before marketing?
400
1 1/2
What is a complex fraction?
400
What is packages of drugs that have a single dose?
What is unit dose?
400
What renal function have an affect on?
What is drug excretion?
500
What happens when one drug interferes with the action of another?
What is antagonistic effect?
500
How many classifications are there in the Controlled Substances Act?
What are five?
500
75/100=3/4
Reduced fraction
500
What provides a space for recording time, and who gives a medication?
What is medication administration record (MAR)?
500
What are factors that place the older adult at a greater risk for drug interactions or drug toxicity?
What are reduced renal or hepatic function, chronic illness that require multidrug therapy (polypharmacy) and a greater likelihood of malnourishment?