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FGCU Pharmacology Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Medication Administration: Nursing Responsibility - Answer-Administering the drug Assessing drug effects Intervening to make the drug regimen more tolerable Providing patient education about drugs and the drug regimen Monitoring the ov...

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FGCU Pharmacology Exam 1 Questions
and Answers \ 100% Pass

Medication Administration: Nursing Responsibility - Answer✔✔-Administering the

drug

Assessing drug effects

Intervening to make the drug regimen more tolerable

Providing patient education about drugs and the drug regimen Monitoring the overall

patient care plan to prevent medication errors

Drug Evaluation: Preclinical Trials - Answer✔✔-Drugs are tested on laboratory

ANIMALS to see if the drug has effects on living tissue organisms and to assess for

adverse effects

Drug Evaluation: Phase I Studies - Answer✔✔-Chemicals tested on HEALTHY

HUMANS volunteers

Informed consent is obtained

Usually male 150lbs

Women of childbearing age are eliminated

Drug may cause unknown harm to ova

Drug Evaluation: Phase II Studies - Answer✔✔-Drug trailed on informed PATIENTS

WITH THE DISEASE that the drug is intended to treat

Drug Evaluation: Phase III Studies - Answer✔✔-Drug used in VAST CLINICAL

MARKET

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Drug Evaluation: FDA Approval - Answer✔✔-Drugs that finish phase III trials are

evaluated by the FDA; if approved my be marketed

Drug Evaluation: Phase IV Studies - Answer✔✔-Continual evaluation of drug

The DEA has how many schedules of controlled substances? - Answer✔✔-5

DEA Schedule I (3 examples) - Answer✔✔-High abuse potential and NO accepted

medical use

Heroin, marijuana, LSD

DEA Schedule II (3 examples) - Answer✔✔-High abuse potential with severe

dependence liability

Narcotics, amphetamines, barbiturates

DEA Schedule III (3 examples) - Answer✔✔-Less abuse potential than schedule II

and moderate dependence liability

Nonbarbiturate sedatives, nonamphetamine stimulates, limited amounts of certain

narcotics

DEA Schedule IV (3 examples) - Answer✔✔-Less abuse than schedule III and limited

dependence liability

Some sedatives, anti-anxiety agents, nonarcotic analgesics

DEA Schedule V (3 examples) - Answer✔✔-Limited abuse potential

Small amounts of narcotics (codeine), antitussives, antidiarrheals

Limited quantities may be purchased directly from a pharmacist

Must be 18 w/ suitable identification

All transactions must be recorded

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Generic Drugs - Answer✔✔-Chemicals that are produced by companies involved

solely in the manufacturing of drugs

Bioavailability of the drug may be different than brand name drug

Less expensive than brand name drug

Why would DAW be written on a prescription? Who writes it? - Answer✔✔-So that

generic drugs will not be substituted for brand name drugs

It is written by the prescriber.

What are some problems with over-the-counter (OTC) drugs? - Answer✔✔-Mask the

signs and symptoms of underlying disease, making difficult diagnosis

Could result in drug interactions and interfere with drug therapy

Can result in serious overdoes if not taken correctly

What is an example of a serious overdoses caused by an OTC? - Answer✔✔-

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) overdoes can result in liver failure and the need for a liver

transplant

What is pharmacodynamics? - Answer✔✔-How the drug affects the body (the

mechanism of action)

The study of the interactions between the chemical components of living systems and

foreign in chemicals, including drugs that enter living organisms

What is pharmacokinetics? - Answer✔✔-The way the body deals with the drug

The study of absorption, distribution, metabolism (biotransformation), and excretion of

drugs




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What is the onset of the drug, and is it part of the pharmacodynamics or

pharmacokinetics? - Answer✔✔-(Pharmacokinetics) how long it will take to see the

beginning of the drugs therapeutic effect

What is a drug half life, and is it part of the pharmacodynamics or pharmacokinetics?

What is the half life affected by? - Answer✔✔-(Pharmacokinetics) The drug half life is

how long it take the drug to decrease by half.

Example 100mg acetaminophen given at 1500 half life is p4h

At 1900 the drug will be down to 50mg

At 2300 the drug will be down to 25mg

It is affected by absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.

What is the peak effect, and is it part of the pharmacodynamics or pharmacokinetics? -

Answer✔✔-(Pharmacokinetics) how long it will take to see the maximum effect of the

drug

What is the duration, and is it part of the pharmacodynamics or pharmacokinetics? -

Answer✔✔-(Pharmacokinetics) how long the patient will experience the drug effects

What are agonists, and give an example? - Answer✔✔-Drugs that interact directly

with receptor sites and cause the same activity that the natural chemicals would cause

at that site

Insulin causes movement of glucose into the cell

What is a competitive antagonist, and give an example? - Answer✔✔-Drugs that

react with receptor sites to block normal stimulation, producing NO EFFECT




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