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NR 292 Pharmacology Basics

Teacher: Kate Fetter MSN, RN, EMT-P
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What is the ratio between a drug's therapeutic effects and toxic effects called?
A drug given by which route is altered by the first-pass effect?
The effect of the medication on the patient is part of the __________ process after a medication is administered.
________ is the study of what drugs do to the body.
When administering two medications that are highly bound, the medications can compete for binding sites on proteins. This competition results in either less of both or less of one of the drugs binding thus increasing the risk of toxicity.
Which is the correct order for the steps of the nursing process? (Use letters)
When figuring out a pediatric medication dose the _______ and weight are to be considered for accurate dosing
Which action, when performed by the nurse, will increase the absorption of a medication administered intramuscularly?
Drug given intravenously will bypass the liver. This prevents the _____ ______ _______from taking place, and therefore more of the drug reaches the circulation.
Medications must be given no more than ________ minutes before or after the actual time specified in the prescriber's orders.
When administering two medications that are highly _______ ______, the medications can compete for binding sites on plasma proteins. This competition results in either less of both or less of one of the drugs binding to the proteins, thus increasing the risk of toxicity.
The patient's weight needs to be in
_______ connotes a breakdown of a product. Biotransformation is actually a more accurate term because some drugs are actually changed into an active form in the liver in contrast to being broken down for excretion
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T/F a Nurse Practitioner, Doctor, Physician Assistant, and Dentists can write Rx (prescription)
Which information is of highest priority when obtaining a pharmacologic history from a patient?
What is the study of the physiochemical properties of drugs and how they influence the body called?
Drug given intravenously will bypass the liver. This prevents the _____ _____ ______ from taking place, and therefore more of the drug reaches the circulation. Parenteral doses of drugs with a high first-pass effect are much smaller than oral doses, yet they produce the same pharmacologic response.
connotes a breakdown of a product. Biotransformation is actually a more accurate term because some drugs are actually changed into an active form in the liver in contrast to being broken down for excretion.
involves the study of how the drug moves through the body, including absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
This class of drugs can cause severe constipation in the elderly and is used to treat a-fib.
The highest priority for patients with multiple medications, polypharmacy, is the assessment for drug ____________.
To achieve the most rapid onset of action, the health care provider will prescribe the medication to be administered by which route?
Patients with renal failure would most likely have problems with drug
the site increases circulation to the area and thus increases absorption, but this should not be performed after all IM injections; it is drug specific. See the recommendations on specific drugs.
During the _____ trimester of pregnancy, the fetus is at the greatest risk for drug-induced developmental defects. During this period the fetus undergoes rapid cell proliferation, and the skeleton, muscles, limbs, and visceral organs are developing at their most rapid rate
While the nurse is taking an admission history, the patient reports having a previous allergic reaction to penicillins. What will the nurse document as part of the patient's allergic reaction response to penicillins?
A drug given by which route is altered by the first-pass effect?