NSU Nursing Pharm Exam 1 First-Class Solutions for Guaranteed Academic Excellence, Tested and Verified
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NSU Nursing
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NSU Nursing
Pharmacology - Answer study of agents that alter functions of living organisms
what is a drug? - Answer any chemical that affects the processes of a living organism
what are drugs used for? - Answer prevent, cure, diagnose, alleviate, relieve
what is the nurse's key role? - Answer education
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1 | P a g e NSU Nursing Pharm Exam 1 First -Class Solutions for Guaranteed Academic Excellence, Tested and Verified Pharmacology - Answer study of agents that alter functions of living organisms what is a drug? - Answer any chemical that affects the processes of a living organism what are drugs used for? - Answer prevent, cure, diagnose, alleviate, relieve what i s the nurse's key role? - Answer education what is an example of a preventative drug? - Answer birth control what is an example of a curative drug? - Answer antiobiotics, bone marrow transplant in sickle cell disease what is an example of a diagnosti c drug? - Answer ppd, contrast, barium what is an example of an alleviating drug? - Answer antihypertensives, antiemetics what is an example of a relief drug? - Answer opioid/non -analgesics local effect of drug - Answer limited to certain locations systemic effect of drug - Answer whole system what drug comes from plants? - Answer morphine what drug comes from animals? - Answer insulin/heparin, premarin what drug comes from minerals? - Answer iron, ASA what drug is synthetic? - Answer NaHCO3 what drug is semi -synthetic? - Answer antibiotics phase 1 of drug development - Answer people with no disease, testing for safety in humans phase 2 of drug de velopment - Answer small number of people with disease, exploring drug and short term effects phase 3 of drug development - Answer large number of people, looking for rare effects phase 4 of drug development - Answer marketing of drug 2 | P a g e all medication orders must be - Answer signed or co signed a drug must be cosigned if - Answer a high risk med is being given verbal orders must be - Answer stated as such on the order sheet, read back, and followed up with nurse's signature what are the common nur sing diagnoses for pharm? - Answer knowledge deficit and non -
compliance what is pharmacokinetics? - Answer study of how drugs are processed by the body major processes of pharmacokinetics - Answer ADME: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion what is absoprtion? - Answer movement of drug from site of administration into the bloodstream factors affecting absorption - Answer - route of administration - gastric pH - contents of GI tract - Short Bowel Syndrome - Bariatric surgery - ability of med to dissolve - body surface area - decreased blood flow Which meds work faster: IV or PO? - Answer IV Which PO meds go through first pass effect? - Answer - oral - rectal - PEG/PEJ tube what is bioavailability? - Answer portion of the drug that go es into circulation which PO meds do NOT go through first pass effect? - Answer buccal and sublingual which meds do not go through first pass and why? - Answer IM and IV, because they go straight into blood Path of first pass effect? - Answer mouth --> intestine --> liver --> circulation Which med has higher dose: PO or IV? - Answer PO Which meds dis solve the fastest? - Answer liquids, elixirs, syrups, gel coated liquid tablets Which meds dissolve the slowest? - Answer enteric coated tablets
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