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Summary Pharm 101 Final Review
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- PHARM 101
- Institution
- Lincoln Technical Institute
Final Review for Pharm 101. *Essential Stuff!!
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Final Review1. What’s the difference between an extrinsic vs intrinsic drug, what is an example?
o If you can’t make it, you give it extrinsically.
o Intrinsic – adrenaline
2. If someone has heart failure, how does that affect medication from being distributed?
3. Isoniazidid – TB drug – It depletes vitamin B6. Without vitamin B6, what kinds of symptoms
would the patient have?
o Peripheral neuropathy
4. What is Abreva used for?
o Cold sores
5. Tegretol – what is it used for?
o Seizures
o What do you call the doctor for?
Neutropenia, WBC gets suppressed, infections bring FEVERs.
6. What is Dilantin used for?
o Seizures
o What is an adverse effect of dilantin?
Diplopia, nystagmus
7. Pencrelipase – breaks down lipid, break down lipid in the pancreas
o Taken if the patients pancreas is not making lipase
8. What is the job of the DEA?
o Page 5
9. Which stems are for hypertension?
o Statin
10. Digoxin – used for heart failure, atrial fibrillation, what is an adverse effect?
o Low heart rate, check the apical pulse for one minute prior to administration. Check the
patient’s heart rate if they complain they are tired.
11. Nitrogylcerin – if you are applying paste, what should you do?
o Wear gloves
12. Fibrate – what is fibrate used for?
o Cholesterol medication
13. What should a patient on fibrate avoid?
o Grapefruit juice
14. Statin – what labs would you monitor fun?
o BUN, liver function, create, electrolytes, cholesterol
Have patient report muscle aches
Rhabdomyolysis (? spelling)
15. Cardiac status – what is the purpose of giving an aspirin?
o Anticoagulant (prevents clotting) – makes it easier for the heart to push blood around
16. Know your lab value for cholesterol
o LDL
o HDL
17. What is some education to provide to a client on coumadin?
o Avoid green leafy vegetables
o Electric razor
o Avoid falls/injury
, o Lab work
o When do you take it
18. Gliptin – what category is it?
o Antidiuretic
o What lab should be monitored?
Hb1AC or whatever it is
19. Giving inhalers, which one goes first?
o Bronchodilator
20. Patient is on a new prescription, new antihypertensive drug, client comes back with a drug
irritating cough? What class (stem) of medication are they on?
o “Pril”
21. What is the drug atropine used for?
o Bradycardia
22. Nitroglycerin tablets – what do you teach them?
o You know the medication is working when it is tingling
23. What is the drug simvastin used for?
o Cholesterol – what education do you provide your patient on a statin?
Take at night
Lifelong
Monitor blood work
24. What is acetylcysteine used for?
o After contrast dye studies
o Tylenol overdose
o Mucolytic – helps thin out mucous in COPD, cystic fibrosis patients – can be given orally
or an aerosol, what does it smell like? Rotten eggs
25. Know the difference between primary and secondary hypertension
o Page 254
26. When your client has cardiac disease, what is something they can’t buy over the counter without
consulting their PCP?
o Cold medications
They can increase blood pressure
Page 278
27. If your client is on a statin, and report achiness, what is going on?
o Rhabdomyolysis
o Page 315
28. Before you start a bile sequestrant, what is an important assessment?
o Abdominal assessment, page 315
29. Aricept, what is aricpet used for?
30. If someone is going for a contrast study, and they are on metformin, what do they do?
o Hold it for 48 before and after
31. Peak tiem for regular insulin, 2-4 hours
o 2-3 hours later, your patient is cold and clammy, hypoglycemia, give them orange juice
32. Intradermal injection, know the angle, the gauge, the length, you would see a bleb if done
correctly
33. What is the medication tetracycline used for?
o Antibiotic
34. Why would you not give it to a young child?
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