Medication Aide Exam Study Guide 2024
MAR - ✔️✔️Medication Administration Record
Diversion - ✔️✔️illegally taking medications intended for use by a resident.
Ethics - ✔️✔️moral values
code of ethics - ✔️✔️no gifts or favors, doing the right thing when no one is watching.
drug - ✔️✔️a chemical substance that once introduced into the body, becomes a
medicine, intended to promote chance in the body
Pharmacology - ✔️✔️a study of the effects of drugs on the body
pharmacotherapeutics - ✔️✔️Branch of pharmacology. this is a study of beneficial
and adverse effects of drugs.
analgesics - ✔️✔️drugs that relieve pain
antibiotics - ✔️✔️drugs that destroy microorganisms or inhibit their growth
antidiabetic agents - ✔️✔️drugs that prevent or treat diabetes
antidiarrheals - ✔️✔️drugs used to prevent diarrhea
antiemetics - ✔️✔️Drugs that help prevent or relieve nausea and vomiting
antihistamines - ✔️✔️medications used to block allergic reactions
antiinfective - ✔️✔️any agent used to fight infection( antibiotic, antiviral, anti-fungal)
antilipidemics - ✔️✔️statins: any drug used to lower fats in the blood
antipsychotics - ✔️✔️a group of drugs used to treat psychosis; same as neuroleptic
antipyretics - ✔️✔️medications that reduce fever
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