Pharmacology & Nursing Role

Question 0

What is pharmacology?

Answer 0

Study of drugs and their interactions with living systems.

Question 1

What is a drug?

Answer 1

Any chemical that can affect living processes

Question 2

What is clinical pharmacology?

Answer 2

Study if drugs in humans

Question 3

What are therapeutics?

Answer 3

The use of drugs to diagnosis, prevent, or treat disease or to prevent pregnancy.

Question 4

There most important properties of an ideal drug:

Answer 4

Effectiveness
Safety
Selectivity

Question 5

What are some additional properties of an ideal drug?

Answer 5

Reversible action
Predictability
Ease of administration
Low cost

Question 6

Is there an ideal drug?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

The objective of drug therapy is what?

Answer 7

Provide maximum benefit with minimum harm.

Question 8

When giving administering a medication important determinants of drug responses are:

Answer 8

Dosage, size of person, route and timing.

Question 9

What does pharmacokinetics involve?

Answer 9

Drug movement through the body and gets to it’s site of action (what the body does to the drug).

Ex. Absorption process.

Question 10

What is the absorption process?

Answer 10

Process that occurs from the time of a drug enters the body to the time it enters the bloodstream to be circulated.

Question 11

What is pharmacodynamics?

Answer 11

Impact of drugs on the body.

Ex. Drugs exert their effects by chemically binding with receptor cells

Question 12

What are sources if individual variation?

Answer 12

Physiologic (age, gender weight)
Pathological (diminished function of kidneys and liver)
Genetic
Drug interactions.

Question 13

How can genetic variables affect individual variation?

Answer 13

Can alter metabolism of drugs and predispose patient to unique interactions.

Question 14

True or false. There is no such thing as a safe drug?

Answer 14

True. A drugs can cause harm

Question 15

True or false. There is no such thing as a selective drug.

Answer 15

True. All drugs can have side effects.

Question 16

Why must drug therapy be tailored to each individual?

Answer 16

All patients are unique.

Question 17

Nursing responsibilities regarding drugs are what three things.

Answer 17

Appropriate medications for patient
Contraindicated drugs
Probable consequences of interaction btw drug and patient.

Question 18

Where are the two major areas that pharmacologic knowledge can be applied?

Answer 18

Patient care

Patient education

Question 19

Application of pharmacology in patient care includes:

Answer 19

Pre administration assessment
Dosage and administration
Evaluating and promoting therapeutic effects
Minimizing adverse effects
Minimizing adverse interactions
Making PRN decisions
Managing toxicity

Question 20

Application of pharmacology in patient education includes:

Answer 20

Drug name and therapeutic category
Dosage size
Dosing schedule
Route and technique of administration
Expected therapeutic response and when it should develop
Nondrug measures to enhance therapeutic responses

Question 21

(Additional) application of pharmacology in patient education include:

Answer 21

Duration if treatment
Method of drug storage
Symptoms of major adverse effects and measures to minimize harm
Major adverse drug-drug and drug-food interactions
Who to contact in even of therapeutic failure/reactions

Question 22

What are the steps of applying nursing process in drug therapy?

Answer 22

Preadministration assessment
Analysis and nursing diagnoses
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

Question 23

What are some components of client assessment in drug therapy?

Answer 23

Observing/interviewing client
Completing a physical assessment
Review MAR

Question 24

Drugs are classified according effects on what three things?

Answer 24

Specific body systems
Therapeutic uses
Chemical characteristics

Question 25

What are prototypes?

Answer 25

Individual drugs that represent groups of drugs.

Often first drug of a particular group to be developed.

Question 26

What are some examples of prototypes ?

Answer 26

Morphine (opioid analgesics)

Penicillin (antibacterial drugs)

Question 27

What are the most common names used for drugs?

Answer 27

Generic name (amoxicillin)

Trade or brand name (amoxil)