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Test Bank For deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills
for Nursing 6th Edition By Patricia Williams
For the patient to receive the full benefit of the drug, nurses must also be aware of
______ that interfere with the desired uptake or action of the medication - ANSWER:
Foods

If a drug causes a false-positive result, then unnecessary and _________ treatment
may be erroneously ordered - ANSWER: Expensive

A drug that causes a false-negative result may lead a primary care provider to
________ a disease condition - ANSWER: Overlook

Along with physicians and pharmacists, nurses are held ________ ___________ for
the safe and therapeutic effects of the drugs - ANSWER: Legally responsible

To prepare for medication administration, you need to - ANSWER: (1) be able to
locate the information about each drug, (2) consistently calculate drug dosages
accurately, (3) devise a method for consistently using the Six Rights of medication
administration, and (4) recognize the nursing implications (points you need to
remember about the drug or teach to the patient) for each drug administered

A drug's three names - ANSWER: Chemical, generic, and trade name

Classifications may be defined by - ANSWER: The effect of the drug on a body
system, the symptoms the drug relieves, or the drug's desired effect

A drug may also have a variety of __________ and _______ and therefore may
belong to more than one class - ANSWER: Properties, effects

Drugs with the same name _______ often have similar _____________ and are used
for the same type of problem - ANSWER: Ending, characteristics

The nurse's role in drug therapy is to administer an individual dose of a medication
at a _________ time - ANSWER: Specified

The form of a drug determines its _____ of administration - ANSWER: Route

The composition of a particular form is designed to ________ it's absorption and
metabolism in the body - ANSWER: Enhance

Many drugs come in many forms such as - ANSWER: Tablets, capsules, ointments,
solutions, suspensions, and suppositories

Physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and advanced practice nurses (APNs)
prescribe medications in _____________ with physicians - ANSWER: Collaboration

, The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act classifies drug's
according to their - ANSWER: Medical usefulness and their potential for abuse

In a majority of hospitals, Schedule _ and _ drugs are dispensed in limited amounts
to the nursing units, where they are stored in a ______ narcotics drawer,
compartment, or automated dispensing unit - ANSWER: 2, 3, locked

The licensed nurse is responsible for the security of these medications and must
account for each ____ that is used - ANSWER: Dose

A ______ is kept on which the nurse notes each dose that is given, to whom, and
when - ANSWER: Record

A _____-__-___ record accounts for each dose dispensed to the nursing unit -
ANSWER: Proof of use

When the contents of the locked narcotics are counted at the change of shift, there
should be a record of each dose _____, a dose of the drug remaining for each
__________ line, and the total _________ - ANSWER: Given, unrecorded, remaining

The completed proof-of-use records are eventually returned to the ________ and
must be kept for a specified time - ANSWER: Pharmacy

_________ __________ units track doses removed by each nurse by computer -
ANSWER: Automated dispensing

An end-of-shift ________ is run to identify any discrepancies, and each week an
_________ is taken of all narcotics - ANSWER: Printout, inventory

Standards for drug quality, purity, packaging, safety, labeling, and dose form were
set by the - ANSWER: Pure Food and Drug Act

For a drug to pass US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and be
marketed, it must meet standards in 5 areas: - ANSWER: Purity, potency,
bioavailability, efficacy, and safety

Substances used in the treatment, palliative, diagnosis, cure, and prevention of
disease - ANSWER: Drugs or medications

Cell functions are either __________ or _________ in various ways - ANSWER:
Stimulated, depressed

Drugs already in solution, such as oral _______ or __________, are generally
absorbed more rapidly - ANSWER: Liquids, injections

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