Antibiotic Drugs Flashcards
Penicillin, cephalosporins, carbapenems, and monobactams are antibiotic drugs that contain what in their structures is called?
Beta-lactam rings
Nafcillin is an antistphylococcal drug. How should it be administered or routed to a client?
Intramuscular (IM) or Intravenous (IV) route
What is a route of drug administration that can help identify if a client has an allergy to a drug being prescribed?
Intradermal (skin test)
If a client is taking this type of drug, she must change or use alternative birth control because this type of drug decreases the efficacy of oral contraceptives. What do you call this type of drug?
Tetracycline
Ototoxicity can damage what types of senses?
Hearing
This drug is commonly used if a client has a urinary tract infection, prostatitis, or STIs.
Norfloxacin
One of the complications of ketoconazole in women is what?
Irregular menstrual flow
These types of drugs are all synthetic compounds that work by inhibiting viral replication. What is this?
Antiviral drugs
What is the classification of the drug used to treat hepatitis A, B, and C?
Non-HIV antivirals
What HIV stage does infection progress to, and opportunistic infection begins in a child?
Stage 3
Impede the formation of the essential enzyme dihydrofolate reductase. What is this?
Pyrimethamine
What is the stage of malaria where a client explains that they experience weakness and sweating and that it lasts from 2 to 4 hours?
Sweating stage
What classification of drug occurs when medication enters the bacterial cell wall and is bound to the binding sites on the bacterium?
Antibacterial drugs
A type of adverse reaction of antibacterial drugs where it affects or damages the liver and kidney metabolism and excretion.
Organ toxicity
What do we call the fungi responsible for integumentary infections?
Dermatophytes
