Basic pharmacology for nurses Claytons chapter 3 Questions And Answers
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Basic Pharmacology For Nurses Claytons
Toddlers
~ Use simple commands in the toddler's jargon to obtain cooperation
Toddler
~ Allow the toddler to choose which medication to take first if more than one is
being taken
Toddler
~ Provide verbal and tactile responses to promote cooperation
Toddler
~ Allow the toddler to become ...
Basic pharmacology for
nurses Claytons chapter 3
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Factors that affect drug therapy
✓~ age, body weight, gender, metabolic rate, illness, psychology, tolerance,
dependence, cumulative effect
Most sensitive
✓~ Infants and very old tend to be______to the effects of drugs
Patients who are overweight may require
✓~ An increase in drug dosage to attain the same therapeutic response
Patients who are under weight compared with the general population
✓~ Tend to require lower dosages for the same therapeutic response
Most Pediatric dosage are calculated
, ✓~ by milligrams for drug per kilogram of body weight
Gender specific medicine
✓~ A developing science that studies differences in the normal function of men
and women and addresses how people of each gender perceive and experience
disease.
Patient with hired an average metabolic rate
✓~ Require larger doses or more frequent administration
Patients with lower than average metabolic rates
✓~ Require lower dosage and less frequently
Chronic smoking enhances the metabolism of some drugs thereby requiring dose
to be administered
✓~ more frequently for therapeutic effect
Pathologic conditions may alter the rate of
✓~ Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a drug
, Patients who are in shock have reduced peripheral vascular circulation and will
✓~ Absorb intramuscular or subcutaneously injected drugs more slowly
Patients who are vomiting may not be able to
✓~ Retain a medication long enough for dissolution and absorption
Patience with nephrotic syndrome or malnutrition may have a reduced amount of
✓~ Serum proteins in the blood that are necessary for adequate distribution of
drugs
Patience with kidney failure generally will excrete drugs at a
✓~ slower rate and must have significant reductions in dosage of medication
excreted by the kidneys
Placebo effect
✓~ Patient's positive expectation about treatment and the care receive can
possibly if affect the outcome of therapy
nocebo effect
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