Week 9

Question 1

What is an AHP

Answer 1

Administrative health professional

Question 2

What is Pharmacology?

Answer 2

The Study and description of drugs including their composition, actions and effects.

It examines the effects drugs and chemicals have on living things

Question 3

A single drug can have up to how many names?

Answer 3

4

Question 4

What does the Drug Name - Chemical mean?

Answer 4

The exact formula

Question 5

What does the Drug Name - Generic mean?

Answer 5

Official name assigned to it

Question 6

What does the Drug Name - Trade mean?

Answer 6

Brand Name

Question 7

What does the Drug Name - Botanical mean?

Answer 7

Name referring to natural substance a drug is made of

Question 8

What are controlled drugs?

Answer 8

Drugs with a high potential for addiction or miuse

Question 9

What is (CDSA)

Answer 9

Controlled Drug and Substances Act

Question 10

What are the classifications by use?

Answer 10

• Therapeutic
• Diagnostic
• Curative
• Replacement drugs
• Prophylactic drugs

Question 11

What kind of use of classification is this: given to prevent a condition or decrease the severity

Answer 11

Prophylactic drugs

Question 12

What kind of use of classification is this: taken to replace a hormone or substance the body can’t produce

Answer 12

Replacement drugs

Question 13

What kind of use of classification is this: given to overcome a disease, infection or other conditions

Answer 13

Curative

Question 14

What does Local Scop of Action mean?

Answer 14

Local or topical effect only at site of application

Question 15

What does Systemic Scope of Action mean?

Answer 15

Circulating through the blood stream, most oral drugs

Question 16

What does Cumulative Scope of Action mean?

Answer 16

Drug accumulates in the body faster than it can be metabolized or excreted

Question 17

What is an example of a topical/transdermal ?

Answer 17

Steroid cream

Question 18

What is an example of a Transdermal Patch?

Answer 18

Smoking Cessation

Question 19

What does Otic route mean?

Answer 19

Directly on the ear, drops

Question 20

What does Ophthalmic route mean?

Answer 20

Eye drops or ointments

Question 21

What does Sublingual or Buccal Route mean?

Answer 21

Under the tongue or between the cheek and gum

Question 22

What does the route Parenteral mean?

Answer 22

Various types of injections or intravenously

Question 23

What is Pharmacokinetics?

Answer 23

The study of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion

Question 24

Absorption means what?

Answer 24

How the drug was taken into the body - the route, the form in which the drug is taken, was the medication taken on a full or empty stomach

Question 25

Distribution means what?

Answer 25

Process by which metabolites are transported to various parts of the body,

determines how long it takes a medication to begin acting, when the action of the drug is at its peak when the action of the drug declines

Question 26

Excretion means what?

Answer 26

Process by which the body disposes of a drug

Question 27

What does the abbreviation: po mean?

Answer 27

By mouth

Question 28

What does the abbreviation: tid mean?

Answer 28

Three times daily

Question 29

What does the abbreviation: hs mean?

Answer 29

Bedtime

Question 30

What does the abbreviation: Ad lib mean?

Answer 30

As needed by the patient