Pharm chapter 1

Question 1

What is the study of biological effects of chemicals?

Answer 1

pharmacology

Question 2

What is the branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs; chemicals that are used in medicine for the treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of disease in humans?

Answer 2

pharmacotherapeutics or clinical pharmacology

Question 3

What are the nurses roles and responsibilities in drug therapy?

Answer 3

-administering drugs
-assessing drug effects
intervening to make the drug regimen more tolerable
-providing patient teaching about drugs and drug regimens
-monitoring the overall patient care plan to prevent medication errors

Question 4

What do you call drug effects, sometimes called side effects, that are not the desired therapeutic effects; may be unpleasant or even dangerous?

Answer 4

adverse effects

Question 5

What do you call desired effects of a drug?

Answer 5

therapeutic effects

Question 6

What are the different sources of drugs?

Answer 6

• plants
• animal
• inorganic
• synthetic

Question 7

Discuss some key points about the plant drugs source.

Answer 7

• plants are an important source of chemicals that are developed into drugs.
• drugs may also be processed using a synthetic version of the active chemical found in a plant.
• some plant-derived food can lead to a drug effect.
• plants and their byproducts have become a main component of the growing herbal and alternative therapy movement.

Question 8

Discuss some key points about the animal drug source.

Answer 8

-animal products are used to replace human chemicals that fail to be produced because of disease or genetic problems.

Question 9

Discuss some key points about the inorganic compounds drug source.

Answer 9

-salts of various chemical elements can have therapeutic effects in the human body.