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?