ALL OF NURS 221: PHARMACOLOGY
What is pharmacology? - correct answer ✔The study or science of drugs
What are legend drugs? - correct answer ✔prescription drugs
What is clinical pharmacology? - correct answer ✔Applying principles and
concepts of pharmacology to properly evaluate and manage drug therapy for
patients in the clinical setting
What is pharmacokinetics? - correct answer ✔Study of what happens to a
drug from the time it is put into the body until the parent drug and all
metabolites have left the body - How medicine moves through the body
What the body does to the drug as go through system (based on GI
process/function)
What is pharmacodynamics? - correct answer ✔what the drug does to the
body
What questions do you ask in clinical pharmacology? - correct answer ✔For
what reason, for what condition, how much (dose), how often, and what route
What are drugs? - correct answer ✔chemicals that are introduced into the
body to cause some sort of change and affect the physiology of a living
organism
What are some sources of ingredients for drugs? - correct answer ✔plants,
animals, genetic engineering (synthetic), and inorganic compounds (salts)
,What are the 3 different kinds of names every drug has? - correct answer
✔Chemical structure name, trade/brand name (proprietary), and generic
name (non proprietary)
What is a trade/brand name and the other name for it? - correct answer
✔(proprietary) Name given by the manufacturer of the drug
How long do drug manufacturers have the exclusive right of a drug? - correct
answer ✔They have the exclusive right, or patent for around the first 15
years. This name is trademarked
What is the generic name of a drug (and the other name)? - correct answer
✔(non-proprietary) When the patent of the original drug manufacturer has
expired and other companies can now make the drug from the same formula
Why is it important to know the brand name and generic name? - correct
answer ✔Because doctors could write down any, and patients need to be
educated to prevent them from doubling the dose
what does DAW mean? - correct answer ✔dispense as written, provider
wants brand specifically (has to be brand not generic)
What are prescription drugs? - correct answer ✔-Drugs made legally
available to consumers with written prescription
-FDA drug development approval required
What are characteristics of Over the Counter (OTC) Drugs? - correct answer
✔- No prescription needed
- Used for short term symptoms treatment
,- Used for common minor ailment treatment
- FDA determines safety and effectiveness criteria
What are some of the criteria for OTC drugs by the FDA? - correct answer
✔- Practical use: be able to take by themselves, kids won't get sick
- Indicate what symptoms should be cured
- Safety use - make sure don't overdose
What are the advantages of OTC drugs? - correct answer ✔- Convenient
- Effective self-treatment of minor illness (don't need to go to the doctor)
- Possible cost savings (cheaper than prescription)
What are the disadvantages (safety issues) of OTC drugs? - correct answer
✔- May delay treatment for serious illness (delay discovery of ex. tumor)
- Potential misuse/ abuse (because don't know how to use)
- Limited insurance coverage (older adults cannot afford)
- Potential interaction, adverse event, toxicity (can interact with prescription,
make prescription not work well)
What should the over the counter drug label information include? - correct
answer ✔Drug information, active ingredients, use, warning (before, during,
pregnancy, child), overdose, directions, other information/storage, and
inactive ingredients (can be allergic)
What are OTC good manufacturing practices? - correct answer
✔Requirements to make drugs: data, product identity, composition, quality,
purity: microbes, metal, pesticides, and strength of active ingredient
Therapeutic - correct answer ✔treatment
, Prophylactic - correct answer ✔prevention
proactive - correct answer ✔maintain health/wellness
What are the uses of herbal/dietary supplements? - correct answer
✔therapeutic, prophylactic, and proactive
Where do many herbal/dietary supplements come from? - correct answer
✔herbs/plants
What is a herb? - correct answer ✔Plant source of ingredient used to
maintain health
What are some reasons some people use herbal/dietary supplements? -
correct answer ✔Religion, natural (but still chemicals that can interact with
drugs), give body extra natural nutrients
What are some herbal products and conditions treated by herbal products? -
correct answer ✔anxiety, headache, PMS, depression; aloe and garlic
Every drug has effects that can be..... - correct answer ✔positive and
negative
What are some positive drug effects? - correct answer ✔prevent illness,
diagnose (ex. dye for x rays), treatment, antidote (given when give too much
medication and can be used to stop the bad effects)
