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/. the first american law designed to regulate all meds to be free of impure products -
Answer-✅pure food and drug act
/.US Pharmacopeia - Answer-✅set standards for med strength, quality, purity,
packaging, safety, labeling and dose form
/.MedWatch Program - Answer-✅This voluntary program encourages nurses to report
when a med, product, or med event causes serious harm to a patient.
/.chemical med names - Answer-✅provides description of med's composition
/.generic med name - Answer-✅manufacturer who 1st develops the drug assigns the
name
/.trade med name - Answer-✅also known as brand or proprietary name. This is the
name under which a manufacturer markets the medication.
/.drug classification - Answer-✅effect of med on body system, symptoms the med
relieves, med's desired effect
/.Pharmacokinetics - Answer-✅what the body does to the drug
/.You are caring for a patient who has diabetes complicated by kidney disease. You
need to make a detailed assessment when administering medications because this
patient may experience problems with: - Answer-✅excretion
/.factors that influence absorption - Answer-✅-route of administration
-ability to dissolve
-blood flow to site of administration
-body surface area
-lipid solubility
/.slowest form of med absorption - Answer-✅topical
/.fastest form of med absorption - Answer-✅IV
, /.drug distribution depends on - Answer-✅-physical and chem properties of the med
-physiology of person taking it (circulation, membrane permeability, protein binding)
/.what organ metabolizes drugs - Answer-✅liver
/.meds are excreted through: - Answer-✅KIDNEYS, liver, bowel, lungs, exocrine glands
/.therapeutic effect - Answer-✅Expected or predicted physiological response
/.Adverse effect - Answer-✅Unintended, undesirable, often unpredictable
/.side effect - Answer-✅Predictable, unavoidable secondary effect
/.toxic effect - Answer-✅accumulation of med in bloodstream
/.idiosyncratic reaction - Answer-✅overreaction/underreaction/ different than normal
/.A postoperative patient is receiving morphine sulfate via patient-controlled analgesia
(PCA). The nurse assesses that the patient's respirations are depressed. The effects of
the morphine sulfate can be classified as: - Answer-✅depressed
/.therapeutic range - Answer-✅that concentration of drug in the blood serum that
produces the desired effect without causing toxicity
/.half life - Answer-✅time it takes for excretion processes to lower the amount of
unchanged medication by half
/.parenteral routes - Answer-✅intradermal, SQ, IM, IV
/.standing order - Answer-✅Administered until the dosage is changed or another
medication is prescribed
/.single order - Answer-✅given one time only for specific reason
/.now order - Answer-✅When a medication is needed right away, but not STAT
/.PRN order - Answer-✅when pt requires it
/.STAT order - Answer-✅given immediately in an emergency
/.prescription order - Answer-✅Medication to be taken outside of the hospital