Terminologies in Introduction to Pharmacology

Question 1

What is Pharmacology?

Answer 1

It is the study of pharmaceuticals and how they affect living beings, including their physical, chemical, biological, and physiologic impacts.

Question 2

What are the 10 rights to medication administration

Answer 2

The 10 Right Medication Administration are Right Patient, Right Route, Right Time, Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Documentation, Right Education, Right to Refuse, Right Assessment and Right Evaluation.

Question 3

What is Chemical Name?

Answer 3

The compound’s chemical structure served as the basis for its scientific designation.

Question 4

What is Generic Name of drug?

Answer 4

A recognized, official, nonproprietary name that is not the property of any particular corporation

Question 5

What is Trade/Brand Name of drug?

Answer 5

A pharmaceutical product that is marketed by a pharmaceutical business and is covered by a patent.

Question 6

Give me an example of generic and also brand name of the drug

Answer 6

Paracetamol is the generic name of Biogesic.

Question 7

What is Pharmacokinetics?

Answer 7

Pharmakon is a drug or poison and kinesis is motion. Also it is a study on how drugs pass through the body.

Question 8

Absorption means?

Answer 8

It is a medications getting into the circulation from the place where they were administered

Question 9

What is the difference between the enteral and parenteral administration?

Answer 9

Enteral means absorption of drug by oral, sublingual and rectal while the Parenteral means outside of the digestive tract by inhalations, injections and transdermal.

Question 10

What is Bioavailability?

Answer 10

It refers to the proportion of a drug that has been administered that is still active.

Question 11

What is Distribution?

Answer 11

The bodily fluids transporting medication to sites of action.

Question 12

What are the factors that affects the metabolism?

Answer 12

The factors that affects the metabolism are the age, First pass effect, Metabolic pathway, and Nutritional status.

Question 13

What is Prodrug?

Answer 13

Prodrug is the compound that transforms into a pharmacologically active substance.

Question 14

What is Half Life?

Answer 14

The duration of time required to lower drug levels in the body by half.

Question 15

What is Pharmacodynamics?

Answer 15

It is the study of the impact of the medications on the body and also the drugs function within the body to imitate the effects of the body’s own chemical messengers.

Question 16

What are the definition of Onset, Peak and Duration?

Answer 16

Onset is the length of time needed for a medication to reach MEC. Peak is that it reaches its maximum concentration in the blood. Lastly, the Duration is a drug’s therapeutic impact lasts for how long.

Question 17

What are the 3 Receptors?

Answer 17

Agonist, Antagonist and Partial Agonist

Question 18

What are the difference between nonspecific and nonselective?

Answer 18

Nonspecific is the medications that influence numerous receptor locations while the Nonselective is the drugs that influence multiple receptor sites.

Question 19

What are those included in the Mechanism of Action?

Answer 19

It includes Stimulation, Depression, Irritation, Replacement, Cytotoxic action, Antimicrobial, and Modification of immune status.

Question 20

What is Standard Prescription?

Answer 20

With or without a termination date, drugs are administered regularly. Until the HCP stops prescribing the medication or the patient is released, the prescription will remain in effect.