PHARMA PART 1 Flashcards
Chemicals that might prove useful as drugs can come from many natural sources, such as plants, animals, or inorganic compounds. To become a drug, a chemical must have a demonstrated therapeutic value or efficacy without severe toxicity or
damaging properties
Natural Resources
Chemicals that might prove useful as drugs can come from many natural sources, such as plants, animals, or inorganic compounds. To become a drug, a chemical must have a demonstrated therapeutic value or efficacy without severe toxicity or
damaging properties
Natural Resources
NURSES RESPONSIBILITIES
Administering drugs
• Assessing drug effects
• Intervening to make the drug regimen more tolerable
• Providing patient teaching about drugs and the drug
regimen
• Monitoring the overall patient care plan to prevent medication errors
NURSES RESPONSIBILITIES
Administering drugs
• Assessing drug effects
• Intervening to make the drug regimen more tolerable
• Providing patient teaching about drugs and the drug
regimen
• Monitoring the overall patient care plan to prevent medication errors
used to replace human chemicals that
fail to be produced because of disease or genetic problems.
Until recently, insulin for treating diabetes was obtained exclusively from the pancreas of cows and pigs.
Animal Products
the process of altering DNA—permits scientists to produce human insulin by altering Escherichia coli
bacteria, making insulin a better product without some of the
impurities that come with animal products.
Generic engineering
KEY POINTS
Clinical pharmacology is the study of drugs used to treat,
diagnose, or prevent a disease.
➧ Drugs are chemicals that are introduced into the body
and affect the body’s chemical processes.
➧ Drugs can come from plants, foods, animals, salts of
inorganic compounds, or synthetic sources.
The ___ carefully regulates the testing and approval of
all drugs in this country.
FDA
To be approved for marketing, a drug must pass through
animal testing, testing on healthy humans, selected testing on people with the disease being treated, and then broad testing on people with the disease being treated.
KEY POINTS
