NSG 3100 Exam 3 -Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/ Latest
Update 2024/2025
How many times does RN have to check medication? - ✔️✔️3x. Upon removing from/ getting from
dispenser. While preparing the medication. Before returning to storage/ giving to pt
What factors affect medication action? - ✔️✔️Developmental, gender, diet, environment,
psychological factors, illness/ disease, time of administration, and cultural, ethnic, religious factors
What age related factors can affect the action of medicine - ✔️✔️Altered menor, visual acuity,
manual dexterity, renal/ liver impairment, organ sensitivity, increased fat proportion which can
increase fat soluble drug toxicity
Who is responsible for their own actions when administering medicine? - ✔️✔️RN
What should you do if you're not familiar with a medication - ✔️✔️Do not administer, search up
the medication and know why your are administering it
drug toxicity - ✔️✔️Harmful effects of the drug
What do you do if liquid medicine is cloudy or color has changed - ✔️✔️Do not use it
Adverse effect of drugs - ✔️✔️More severe side effects that justifies discontinuation of the drug
What do you do if pt throws up after PO medication administration? - ✔️✔️Put gloves and search
through emesis. If pill is in emesis, you can administer another pill bc you know it is not in their
system. If pill is not in emesis, you cannot administer another pill, notify PCP
side effects - ✔️✔️Secondary effect of a drug that is not intended, usually predictable
Therapeutic/ desired effect of drug - ✔️✔️Reason the drug is prescribed
drug distribution - ✔️✔️Transportation of the drug from the site of absorption to the site of action
, drug allergy - ✔️✔️Allergic reaction to a drug
drug absorption - ✔️✔️Process by which a drug passes into the bloodstream. It is the route of
administration
Anaphylaxis - ✔️✔️Severe allergic reaction after drug administration that can be fatal
Pharmacokinetics - ✔️✔️the study of the absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and excretion
of drugs
Drug tolerance - ✔️✔️Person has a low physiological reaction to a drug and requires increases in
dosage in order to maintain therapeutic effect of drug
Pharmacodynamics - ✔️✔️Drug action mechanism, the process of how a medication interacts w
cells to produce a biological response
Drug interaction - ✔️✔️The administration of a drug before, concurrently or after another drug that
can alter the effects of one/ both drugs
signs of anaphylactic shock - ✔️✔️wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, hypotension, coughing, watery
eyes, stuffy nose, tachycardia, itchy red swollen skin, diarrhea, vomiting
synergistic effect - ✔️✔️Drugs that work together to enhance the effects. The combined effect is
greater than the effect of either substance alone
Antagonistic effect - ✔️✔️Drugs that work against each other. The drug effect is lowered by taking
the drug with the other substance
Routine order - ✔️✔️Administered until the health care provider discontinues the order or until a
prescribed number of doses or days have occurred.
drug biotransformation - ✔️✔️metabolism, process by which a drug is converted to a less active
form by the liver
Update 2024/2025
How many times does RN have to check medication? - ✔️✔️3x. Upon removing from/ getting from
dispenser. While preparing the medication. Before returning to storage/ giving to pt
What factors affect medication action? - ✔️✔️Developmental, gender, diet, environment,
psychological factors, illness/ disease, time of administration, and cultural, ethnic, religious factors
What age related factors can affect the action of medicine - ✔️✔️Altered menor, visual acuity,
manual dexterity, renal/ liver impairment, organ sensitivity, increased fat proportion which can
increase fat soluble drug toxicity
Who is responsible for their own actions when administering medicine? - ✔️✔️RN
What should you do if you're not familiar with a medication - ✔️✔️Do not administer, search up
the medication and know why your are administering it
drug toxicity - ✔️✔️Harmful effects of the drug
What do you do if liquid medicine is cloudy or color has changed - ✔️✔️Do not use it
Adverse effect of drugs - ✔️✔️More severe side effects that justifies discontinuation of the drug
What do you do if pt throws up after PO medication administration? - ✔️✔️Put gloves and search
through emesis. If pill is in emesis, you can administer another pill bc you know it is not in their
system. If pill is not in emesis, you cannot administer another pill, notify PCP
side effects - ✔️✔️Secondary effect of a drug that is not intended, usually predictable
Therapeutic/ desired effect of drug - ✔️✔️Reason the drug is prescribed
drug distribution - ✔️✔️Transportation of the drug from the site of absorption to the site of action
, drug allergy - ✔️✔️Allergic reaction to a drug
drug absorption - ✔️✔️Process by which a drug passes into the bloodstream. It is the route of
administration
Anaphylaxis - ✔️✔️Severe allergic reaction after drug administration that can be fatal
Pharmacokinetics - ✔️✔️the study of the absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and excretion
of drugs
Drug tolerance - ✔️✔️Person has a low physiological reaction to a drug and requires increases in
dosage in order to maintain therapeutic effect of drug
Pharmacodynamics - ✔️✔️Drug action mechanism, the process of how a medication interacts w
cells to produce a biological response
Drug interaction - ✔️✔️The administration of a drug before, concurrently or after another drug that
can alter the effects of one/ both drugs
signs of anaphylactic shock - ✔️✔️wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, hypotension, coughing, watery
eyes, stuffy nose, tachycardia, itchy red swollen skin, diarrhea, vomiting
synergistic effect - ✔️✔️Drugs that work together to enhance the effects. The combined effect is
greater than the effect of either substance alone
Antagonistic effect - ✔️✔️Drugs that work against each other. The drug effect is lowered by taking
the drug with the other substance
Routine order - ✔️✔️Administered until the health care provider discontinues the order or until a
prescribed number of doses or days have occurred.
drug biotransformation - ✔️✔️metabolism, process by which a drug is converted to a less active
form by the liver
