Ch 35/36 Flashcards
Chemical Name
Name of exact ingredients of the medication
Generic Name
Name assigned by the US Adopted Name Council
Based usually in part on the chemical name but shorthand.
Can be referred to as nonproprietary name.
Brand Name
Trade Name
Usually shorter or easier to remember.
This name is owned by the pharmaceutical company.
One drug may have many brand names b/c it is sold by many companies.
Prescription Medications
Available with a written direction from a health-care provider with prescriptive authority.
Who can prescribe medications?
Physicians
Nurse Practitioners
(sometimes depending on state laws):
Physicians Assistants
What is included on a prescription?
Patient and health-care provider’s ID info
Medication and Dose
Instructions to pharmacist
any special instructions
directions to patient
OTC
Over the counter
Over the counter medications
Available without a prescription, determined average person can take it safely without needing instructions from a provider
Routes of administration
Oral
Sublingual
Mucosal
Topical
Parenteral
Oral
Taken through mouth
Swallow or buccal placement
Sublingual
Absorbed under tongue
ODT
Orally Disintegrating Tablet
Mucosal
Absorbed through mucosa like rectum, vagina, eye, ear, or inhaled into lung/bronchi
Topical
Applied to skin
Creams, ointments, lotions, or transdermal
Parenteral
Given under skin
includes:
all injections
-intradermal
-subcutaneous
-intramuscular
-intravenous