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NURS 3210 Pharmacology- Exam 1 questions withcorrect answers
What is the origin of medicine? Correct Answer-plants, minerals, animals
When do pharmacotherapeuitcs date back to? Correct Answer-4000 BC
What is a generic name? Correct Answer-the assigned name of the drug
What is a trade name? Correct Answer-a commercial name assigned to the drug by
companies
What is pharamcology? Correct Answer-study of medication
What is pharmaceutics? Correct Answer-how various dosage forms influence how a drug affects the body
What is pharmacokinetics? Correct Answer-action of the body on the medication
What is pharmacodynamics? Correct Answer-action of the drug on the body
What is pharmacotherapeutics? Correct Answer-using drugs to treat or prevent pathological conditions
What are the phases of drug activity? Correct Answer-pharmaceutical phase, pharmacokinetic phase, pharmacodynamic phase What is the pharmaceutical phase of drug activity? Correct Answer-disintegration of dosage form
What is the pharmacokinetic phase of drug activity? Correct Answer-absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion
What is the pharmacodynamic phase of drug activity? Correct Answer-drug-
receptor interaction
What are the four phases of pharmacokinetics? Correct Answer-absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion
What aspects are involved in the timing of pharmacokinetics? Correct Answer-
onset, peak, duration, half-life
Which phases of pharmacokinetics are a "one way street"? Correct Answer-
absorption and excretion (can't be reversed)
Which phases of pharmacokinetics are in a circular pattern? Correct Answer-
metabolism and distribution (continual circulation)
What is absorption? Correct Answer-uptake of medication into the bloodstream (circulation)
What is absorption largely influenced by? Correct Answer-route
What does the choice of route affect? Correct Answer-rate of absorption (how fast)
and extent of absorption (how much) What is the quickest route? Correct Answer-IV
What are the three primary categories of routes? Correct Answer-enteral, parenteral, and topical
What is enteral? Correct Answer-absorbed through the GI tract, primarily through the small intestine
What is parenteral? Correct Answer-injected
What is topical? Correct Answer-applied to the surface
What route is an inhaler? Correct Answer-topical (medicine goes on the surface of the airways)
What is the exception to the enteral route? Correct Answer-when given a suppository
Which organ is the number one detoxifier? Correct Answer-liver
What is the first pass effect? Correct Answer-when a drug is taken, it is brought to the liver. The liver will metabolize and change the drug into something that will be
excreted. An example is if you take 400 mg of ibuprofen, the liver will metabolize a certain amount of that. The body can no longer use that amount. The amount of the drug that the body can use is smaller than the dose that you take due to the first pass effect. What are the factors that affect absorption through the enteral route? Correct Answer-stomach acid
intestinal changes
food/fluids
age
other meds
sepsis
exercise
What are factors that affect absorption through the parenteral route? Correct Answer-vasoconstriction
PVD (peripheral vascular disease)
vasopressors
scarring
cardiac arrest
What is another name for distribution? Correct Answer-transport
What is distribution? Correct Answer-transport of medicine by the bloodstream to the target site
What can distribution be affected by? Correct Answer-protein binding
blood flow
body tissue affinity
What is the frequent binding protein? Correct Answer-albumin
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