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Nursing Pharmacology Introduction Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions.
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Nursing Pharmacology Introduction Questions AndAnswers With Verified Solutions.
Pharmacology - ANSWER science that deals with drugs and their action on living organisms
Drugs - ANSWER chemicals that are introduced into the body to cause some sort of change
and used in the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of disease.
chemical name - ANSWER the chemical structure of a drug
generic name - ANSWER official established non-proprietary name assigned to a drug
Brand name - ANSWER the proprietary name assigned to a drug owned by a drug company
OTC drugs - ANSWER drugs available to the consumer without a prescription
Prescription drugs - ANSWER a drug that can be dispensed only with an order given by a
properly authorized person
Pharmacotherapeutics - ANSWER clinical pharmacology (branch of pharmacology that uses
drugs to treat, prevent or diagnose disease
Pharmacodynamics - ANSWER study of drug's effects on the body; mechanism of action
adverse effects - ANSWER negative effects of drugs on the body
side effects - ANSWER effects of a drug other than the primary intended therapeutic effect
Pharmacokinetics - ANSWER study of body's response to the drug (absorption, distribution,
metabolism, excretion)
Agonist - ANSWER can be a drug or an endogenous ligand that binds with receptors
Drug receptor - ANSWER a target macro molecule that binds a drug (agonist)and mediates its
pharmacological action ( e.g. enzymes, nucleic acids, membrane bound proteins)
Drug receptor complex - ANSWER leads to a biological response
Increased number of agonists - ANSWER leads to increased extent of biologic response.
increased number of complexes - ANSWER lead to more responses. (limited to- until all
receptors have been filled up)
full agonist - ANSWER leads to 100% response
partial agonist - ANSWER attains only less than a 100% response
antagonist - ANSWER blocks or reverses the effect of agonist
Efficacy - ANSWER maximal response the drug produces
potency - ANSWER the measure of a dose requirement to make a biologic response
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