Fundamentals NU 136 Chapter 33
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Explain how you should prepare for administering medication. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Be
able to locate the info about each drug
2. Consistently calculate drug dosages accurately
3. Devise a method for consistently using the Six Rights of medication administration
4. Recongnize the nursing implications for each drug administered.
Define adverse drug reaction (ADR) (or advanced drug event [ADE]) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Unintended effect on the body resulting from therapeutic drug use, drug abuse, or
interaction of drugs.
Define adverse effects. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Very undesirable side effects with more serious
consequences.
Define agonists. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Drugs that produce a response.
Define anaphylaxis. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Severe allergic reaction (hypersensitivity).
Describe how the classifications of drugs are defined. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- By the effect of
the drug on a body system.
- The symptoms the drug relieves
- The drug's desired effect
, The rate of absorption is determined by what factors? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Body weight
- Age
- Sex
- Disease conditions
- Genetic factors
- Immune mechanisms
- Physiologic and emotional factors
Define antagonists. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Drugs that block a response.
Define "black box" warnings. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Warning on a prescription medication to
alert the patient and health care provider about important safety concerns, sucha s serious side
effects or lige-threatening risks.
Define contraindications. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Reasons not to administer (a drug).
When giving sequential doses of a drug, why is it important that the doses be timed? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔So the drug's concentration level in the blood never drops below the minumum
effecive level.
List and describe the four types of drug actions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Stimulation or
Depression: Direct action on a receptor site
- Replacement: such as injected insulin
- Inhibition or Killing of Organisms: such as the action of an antibiotic when it blocks synthesis of
the bacterial cell wall.
- Irritation: such as that produced by a laxative on the colon wall.
Define degrade. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Break down
Exam 2025 With 100% Correct
Answers
Explain how you should prepare for administering medication. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Be
able to locate the info about each drug
2. Consistently calculate drug dosages accurately
3. Devise a method for consistently using the Six Rights of medication administration
4. Recongnize the nursing implications for each drug administered.
Define adverse drug reaction (ADR) (or advanced drug event [ADE]) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Unintended effect on the body resulting from therapeutic drug use, drug abuse, or
interaction of drugs.
Define adverse effects. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Very undesirable side effects with more serious
consequences.
Define agonists. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Drugs that produce a response.
Define anaphylaxis. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Severe allergic reaction (hypersensitivity).
Describe how the classifications of drugs are defined. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- By the effect of
the drug on a body system.
- The symptoms the drug relieves
- The drug's desired effect
, The rate of absorption is determined by what factors? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Body weight
- Age
- Sex
- Disease conditions
- Genetic factors
- Immune mechanisms
- Physiologic and emotional factors
Define antagonists. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Drugs that block a response.
Define "black box" warnings. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Warning on a prescription medication to
alert the patient and health care provider about important safety concerns, sucha s serious side
effects or lige-threatening risks.
Define contraindications. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Reasons not to administer (a drug).
When giving sequential doses of a drug, why is it important that the doses be timed? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔So the drug's concentration level in the blood never drops below the minumum
effecive level.
List and describe the four types of drug actions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Stimulation or
Depression: Direct action on a receptor site
- Replacement: such as injected insulin
- Inhibition or Killing of Organisms: such as the action of an antibiotic when it blocks synthesis of
the bacterial cell wall.
- Irritation: such as that produced by a laxative on the colon wall.
Define degrade. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Break down
