1.Functions and professional responsibilities of nurses are defined by:
each state's Nurse Practice Act
2.What must happen for medication to be on the market: extensive testing
3.What does the FDA do with medication?: regulate for safety and
distribution
4.What does the Nurse Practice Act do?: protect the public from
unskilled, undereducated, and unlicensed personnel
5.Nurses are responsible for knowing what about medications: -actions
and effects on the body
-policies and regulations governing the safe administration of
medications
6.it is important for nurses to know these things about medications: -name
-drug action
,-forms
-pharmacokinetics
-therapeutic effects
-side effects
-adverse affects
7.The goal of medication is to: provide the maximum amount of benefits
with the minimum amount of harm
8.How many names do medications have: 4
9.What are the four names of medications:
chemical official name
generic name
trade name
10.trade name is: assigned by manufacturer
11.drugs are: any substance that alters physiologic function
12.medications are: drug used specifically for therapeutic effect
,13.medications are made in a and come from :
laboratory plant, mineral, or animal sources
14.The USP and the NF help to: protect the public by identifying
medication properties that show an appropriate brand of quality and
purity for medications
15.controlled substances are: medications that have government
regulated man- ufacturing, prescribing, and dispensing
16.What Act establishes 5 categories for controlled substances?: Drug
Abuse Prevention and Control Act or Controlled Substance Act
17.Who monitors the CSA or Drug Abuse Prevention Control Act: the DEA
18.Rules with controlled substances: -written record required
-must be documented each time dispensed
-reported inventory to DEA every 2 years
-if throwing portion away, 2 licensed personnel must witness disposal
, 19.Health Care facilities regulations must be: the same or more strict
than federal, state, and local regulations
20.Pharmokinetics is: how medications move through the body
21.Pharacodynamics is: how medications interact with the body
22.therapeutic effect is seen as: the desired or intended action
23.side effects are: predictable, unwanted and sometimes unavoidable
reactions
24.adverse effects are: serve, unintended, and often unpredictable
reactions
25.toxic effect is: overdose or build up of medication in the blood due to
impaired metabolism
26.allergic reaction is: unpredictable immune response to medication
27.anaphalactic reaction is: serve allergic reaction that requires
immediate med- ical attention
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