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CNUR 202 Unit 1 and 2 Exam Questions and Answers All Correct What is the role of the nurse when a medication error occurs? - Answer- 1) Assess 2) Notify 3) Report 4) Document Nurses responsibilities for controlled substances: (5) - Answer- 1) STORING controlled substances in locked contai...

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CNUR 202 Unit 1 and 2 Exam Questions
and Answers All Correct
What is the role of the nurse when a medication error occurs? - Answer- 1) Assess
2) Notify
3) Report
4) Document

Nurses responsibilities for controlled substances: (5) - Answer- 1) STORING controlled
substances in locked containers
2) ADMINISTERING only to people for whom they are prescribed
3) RECORDING each dose given on agency narcotic records and on the pt's MAR
4) MAINTAINING an accurate inventory
5) REPORTING discrepancies to the proper authorities and reporting errors

What is a chemical name of a drug? - Answer- Describes the drug's chemical
composition

What is a generic name of a drug? - Answer- Commonly known, less expensive drug

What is a trade name of a drug? - Answer- Brands that make the drug (EX: Advil)
(patented - belongs to a company)

What is a classification of a drug? - Answer- A group of drugs with similar properties

What is a prescribed order? - Answer- How health care providers convey therapeutic
plan for a pt. Used to communicate to the nurse or designated health care worker which
medication to administer to a pt.

What is a written order or prescription? - Answer- When a prescription is physically
written or send electronically.

What is a verbal order or prescription? - Answer- When a prescription is communicated
orally, over the phone or in person.

After a verbal order, how long do you have to get the prescriber's signature? - Answer-
Within 24 hours

What are the seven essential components of writing medication orders? - Answer- 1)
Pt's full name
2) Date and time written
3) Name of medication
4) Dosage
5) Route

, 6) Time and frequency
7) Signature of prescriber

In what order is a medication order (Rx) written? - Answer- 1) Name of medication
2) Dosage
3) Route
4) Frequency

Pharmacokinetics - Answer- The study of what the body does to the drug (absorption,
distribution, metabolize, and excrete)

Pharmacodynamics - Answer- The study of what the drug does to the body

Pharmaceutical phase - Answer- Drug enters the body and disintegrates

Absorption - Answer- The pharmacokinetic phase or time from a drug entering the body
until the drug enters the blood stream

Bioavailability - Answer- Extent of drug absorption to systemic blood circulation

First-pass Effect - Answer- The initial metabolism in the liver of a drug absorbed from
the gastrointestinal tract before the drug reaches systemic circulation through the
bloodstream.

Enteral Route - Answer- The drug is absorbed into the systemic circulation through the
mucosa of the stomach, small intestine or large intestine

Examples of enteral routes - Answer- Oral, sublingual, buccal, rectal

Examples of parenteral routes - Answer- Intravenous (fastest delivery into the blood
circulation), intramuscular, subcutaneous, intradermal, intra-atrial, intrathecal, intra-
articular

Examples of topical routes - Answer- Skin (incl. transdermal patches), eyes, ears, nose,
lungs (inhln), rectum, vagina

Distribution (medication administration) - Answer- The transport of a drug by the
bloodstream to the drug's site of action

What is the most common blood protein and carries the majority of protein-bound drug
molecules? - Answer- Albumin


Pharmacology - Answer- The study of drugs

Drug - Answer- Any chemical that affects the physiological processes of a living
organism

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