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Unit 1: Introduction To Nursing Pharmacology Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions.
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Unit 1: Introduction To Nursing Pharmacology QuestionsAnd Answers With Verified Solutions.
What is the term for any chemical that can affect living processes? - ANSWER drug
What is the term for the study of drugs and their interactions with living systems? - ANSWER
pharmacology
What is the term for the study of drugs in humans? - ANSWER clinical pharmacology
What is the term for the use of drugs to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or to prevent pregnancy? -
ANSWER therapeutics
What are the three most important properties of an ideal drug? - ANSWER effectiveness,
safety, and selectivity
What property of an ideal drug elicits the response for which it was given? - ANSWER
effectiveness
What property of an ideal drug that cannot produce harmful effects--even if administered in very high
doses and for a very long time? - ANSWER safety
What property of an ideal drug elicits only the response for which it is given? - ANSWER
selectivity
What is the therapeutic objective of drug therapy? - ANSWER to provide maximum benefit
with minimal harm
The process of drug development is regulated by what government department? - ANSWER
Food and Drug Administration
In what phase of new drug development are chemicals tested on laboratory animals? - ANSWER
preclinical trials
In what phase of new drug development are chemicals tested on human volunteers? - ANSWER
phase I studies
In what phase of new drug development are drugs tried on informed patients? - ANSWER
phase II studies
In what phase of new drug development are drugs that continue to show promise after the previous
phase and are moved into a larger clinical market? - ANSWER phase III studies
In what phase of new drug development does post marketing surveillance take place? - ANSWER
phase IV studies
Limited information for women because of possible birth defects and children because of the
unwillingness to volunteer your child for testing would be considered limitations of the what? -
ANSWER testing procedure
, Due to the limitations of the testing procedure, researchers fail in what? - ANSWER detecting
all adverse effects
What are the three types of drug names? - ANSWER chemical, generic and trade
What name of the drug is patented by the company that sells them? - ANSWER trade name
What name is given by the United States Adopted Name Council? - ANSWER generic name
Nurses use which name for drugs? - ANSWER generic name
What is the term for the study of the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs? -
ANSWER pharmacokinetics
What is the term for the use of a drug for an indication that is not approved by the FDA? -
ANSWER off-label medications
Off-label medication are usually approved specifically for which populations? - ANSWER
geriatric and pediatric
What is the term for the movement of a drug from its site of administration into the blood? -
ANSWER absorption
Rate of dissolution, surface area, blood flow, and lipid solubility are factors affecting what? -
ANSWER absorption
What is the term for the movement of drugs throughout the body? - ANSWER distribution
Exiting the vascular system through capillary beds, protein binding, blood-brain barrier and
placenta/breast milk are factors that affect what? - ANSWER distribution
What are the two phases of distribution? - ANSWER entering and exiting
Drug distribution is determined by blood flow to ______, _________ the vascular system, and
_________ cells. - ANSWER tissues, exiting, entering
What term is the enzymatic alteration of drug structure? - ANSWER metabolism
What is another term for metabolism? - ANSWER biotransformation
Metabolism most often takes place where? - ANSWER the liver
What is the hepatic microsomal enzyme system that does most of the work in metabolism? -
ANSWER P450 system
What is the term for the removal of drugs from the body? - ANSWER excretion
Where does excretion take place? - ANSWER kidneys
What also takes place in bile, saliva, lungs, breast milk and sweat? - ANSWER excretion
The objective of drug dosing is to maintain plasma drug levels within the what? - ANSWER
therapeutic range
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