NSG-300 Final Exam with verified answers

NSG-300 Final Exam with verified answers


the first american law designed to regulate all meds to be free of impure products - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔pure food and drug act



US Pharmacopeia - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔set standards for med strength, quality, purity,
packaging, safety, labeling and dose form



MedWatch Program - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔This voluntary program encourages nurses to
report when a med, product, or med event causes serious harm to a patient.



chemical med names - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔provides description of med's composition



generic med name - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔manufacturer who 1st develops the drug assigns
the name



trade med name - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔also known as brand or proprietary name. This is
the name under which a manufacturer markets the medication.



drug classification - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔effect of med on body system, symptoms the
med relieves, med's desired effect



Pharmacokinetics - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔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: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔excretion



factors that influence absorption - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-route of administration

-ability to dissolve

, -blood flow to site of administration

-body surface area

-lipid solubility



slowest form of med absorption - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔topical



fastest form of med absorption - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔IV



drug distribution depends on - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-physical and chem properties of the
med

-physiology of person taking it (circulation, membrane permeability, protein binding)



what organ metabolizes drugs - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔liver



meds are excreted through: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔KIDNEYS, liver, bowel, lungs, exocrine
glands



therapeutic effect - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Expected or predicted physiological response



Adverse effect - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Unintended, undesirable, often unpredictable



side effect - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Predictable, unavoidable secondary effect



toxic effect - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔accumulation of med in bloodstream



idiosyncratic reaction - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔overreaction/underreaction/ different than
normal