Pharmacology Final Exam
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Define Pharmacokinetics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The impact of the body on
drugs. How much of an administered dose gets to its sites of action.
, Four major pharmokinetic processes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Drug absorption,
drug distribution, drug metabolism, and drug excretion.
Define Pharmacodynamics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The impact of drugs on the
body. The nature and intensity of the response to the drug.
Two major areas in which you can apply pharmacologic knowledge. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Patient care and patient education.
Seven aspects of drug therapy. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pre administration
assessment, dosage and administration, evaluating and promoting
therapeutic effects, minimizing adverse effects, minimizing adverse
reactions, making "as needed" (PRN) decisions, and managing toxicity.
Pre administration assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Three basic goals:
collecting baseline data needed to evaluate therapeutic and adverse
responses, identifying high -risk patients, and assessing the patient's
capacity for self-care.
To help reduce adverse effects, you must know - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The major
adverse effects the drug can produce, when these reactions are likely to
occur, early signs that an adverse reaction is developing, and interventions
that can minimize discomfort and harm.