medication
→ substance administered for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, or relief of a symptom or for
prevention of disease
legislation and standards for non parental medication
→ Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
→
→ U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
→
→ Institutional policies...
NSC 232 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2024/2025
medication
→ substance administered for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, or relief of a symptom or for
prevention of disease
legislation and standards for non parental medication
→ Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
→
→ U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
→
→ Institutional policies
Official government agency
NPA
Can patients refuse medication?
→ They monitor testing, approval, and distribution of drugs
→
→ nurse practice act. There are certain medications that you can give based on your
certificate. Comply with the policies of the facility that you work at. Policy on how far
apart you can give your medication.
→
→ YES, sometimes they have that right, and other times they may not. It depends on if
they can make those decisions for themselves or not
→ Nursing practice acts
→ Responsibility for actions
→ Question any order that appears unreasonable
→ Refuse to give the medication until the order is clarified
what are the different sources of medication?
→ Printed materials
→ People
→ Computer-based resources
drug actions
→ Mechanism of action
→ Therapeutic effect
→ Side effects
→ Adverse effects
→ Mild to severe reactions (anaphylaxis-life threatening)
→ Drug interactions
→ Pharmacokinetics
drug actions (mechanism of action)
→ the processes involved in the interaction between a drug and body cells
drug actions (therapeutic effect)
→ The intended effect of medication
drug actions (adverse effect)
→ true allergy to medications
→ * can have mild or severe reactions
→ point of entry until it gets into blood stream about 40 minutes
Distribution
→ begins with absorption until medication arrives at desired point/site
Biotransformation
→ the process of inactivating and breaking down of medication
Excretion
→ the movement of med from point of breaking down, back into circulation and then
transported out of body
→ *happens in the kidneys, sweat. GI tract, respiratory system
drug tolerance
→ Need increasing doses to maintain therapeutic effect
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