Exam 1 Flashcards
5 rights to drug administration
Patient
Drug
Dose
Time
Route
Additional 5 rights to administer medication
Documentation
Assessment
Education
Evaluation
Right to refuse
Causes that effect absorption of medications
Blood flow
Temperature
Food
Stress
Pain
Route
Bioavailability
Pharmaceutic phase
Tablet drugs that need to be broken down into a solution for to be absorbed in the GI tract
Liquid or tablet absorbed in body faster
Liquid
First pass effect
Tablet - GI - liver - bloodstream and kidney
Pharmacokinetic phase
How drugs move through the body
Absorption
Distribution
Metabolize
Elimination ADME
Percentage of administered drug that reaches the systemic circulation
Bioavailability
Rapid absorption has _____ bioavailability
Increased
Slow absorption has ______ bioavailability
Decrease
IV administration has ______ bioavailability
100% all medication is absorbed through the body
The four stages of absorption distribution metabolism and elimination of drugs
Pharmacokinetics
The effects if drugs in the body and the mechanisms of their actions
Pharmocodynamics
Amount of drugs that are left circulating in the body
Bioavailability
When a drug is given orally, it must be absorbed from the GI tract into _____ circulation
Portal
Transdermal application of a medication is ____ circulation
Systemic
Occurs when a drug has an impact in an irgan than its intended target organ
Side effects
A drugs impact on the body
Pharmacodynamics
Binds to a receptor to produce desired effect
Agonist
Competes with inherent molecules and blocks a response at the receptor site
Antagonist
Effect of drug when the medication first begins to take effect
Onset
Effect of drug when the maximum concentration of medication in the body, and the patient shows evidence if the greatest therapeutic effect
Peak
Length of time a medication produces its desired therapeutic effect
Duration