Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the chemical drug name ?

Answer 1

Name that describes the drugs chemical structure

Question 2

What is the generic drug name?

Answer 2

Official nonproprietary name for the drug and is always lower case

Question 3

What is the Brand/ Trafe name of a drug?

Answer 3

Proprietary name chosen by drug company and is usually registered

Question 4

What does anagelsic mean?

Answer 4

Pain relieving

Question 5

How does the oral route of medication get absorbed?

Answer 5

By the GI tract

Question 6

How does the transdermal route of medication get absorbed?

Answer 6

By the systemic circulation (blood)

Question 7

What was the 1906 Federal Pure Food and Drug act do?

Answer 7

Established that Food and Drugs have to say whar ingredients are in them?

Question 8

What was the 1912 Sherley Amendment?

Answer 8

Involve Winslow’s soothing syrup for babies which had morphine in It which killed a lot of babies. Insured to make sure consumers know what is in drugs and medications

Question 9

What was the 1951 Durham Humphrey Amendment?

Answer 9

Made to distinguish between prescription and Over the counter medications

Question 10

What was the Kefauver-Harris Amendment ?

Answer 10

Established due to tragedy that happened due to drug called Thalodomode women in first trimester of pregnancy took was classified as a seductive hypnotic which caused their babies to be born with EXTREME limb deformities

Question 11

What was the 1970 Comprehensive Drug abuse and prevention Control Act?

Answer 11

Based on addiction and dependency

Question 12

Define Misfeasance

Answer 12

Negligence; giving the wrong drug, or drug dose resulting in client death

Question 13

Nonfeasance

Answer 13

Omission; omitting a drug dose that results in client death

Question 14

Malfeasance

Answer 14

Giving the correct drug but by the wrong route resulting in client death

Question 15

Define Bioequivalence

Answer 15

Acts in the body in the same manner and the same defree as the drug go which It is compared.

Question 16

What changes in generic drugs compared to the brand name drug?

Answer 16

Generic drugs have different inactive ingredients

Question 17

People with what condition should not take aspirin?

Answer 17

Asthma, because aspirin can trigger an actute asthma attack

Question 18

What does aspirin do?

Answer 18

Acts as a deregulated of leukotrienes

Question 19

What is a major side effect of aspirin?

Answer 19

Can cause impaired renal function

Question 20

If a child has a viral infection associated with Reye’s syndrome what Medication should they not take?

Answer 20

Aspirin

Question 21

What do sleep aids contain?

Answer 21

Anti-histamine

Question 22

What is a major side effect of an anstihistamine?

Answer 22

Drowsiness

Question 23

What is an effect of sleep aids that happen in some older adults and some children?

Answer 23

Sleep aids may cause CNS stimulation instead of sedation

Question 24

What is idiosyncratic/ Paradoxical?

Answer 24

When the drug causes the OPPOSITE Effects of its intended use

Question 25

What does SAFER stand for?

Answer 25

``` Speak up Ask questions Find the facts Evaluate choices Read the label ```

Question 26

Define pharmacology

Answer 26

The study of drugs and their interactions with living systems

Question 27

Define drug

Answer 27

Any chemical that affects living process and maintains homeostasis. A chemical which is utilized for diagnosis prevention and cure of an unwanted health condition

Question 28

What is the sublingual route?

Answer 28

Dissolves under the tongue

Question 29

What two processes make up the Pharmacuetical phase?

Answer 29

Disintergraton and dissolution.

Question 30

What process has to happen before a solid tabled can be absorbed?

Answer 30

Disintegration.

Question 31

Define dissolution

Answer 31

The process where a solid tablet goes into the soultion

Question 32

Name and describe the three phases a oral drug must go through

Answer 32

1. ) Pharmaceutical phase: ( disintegration + dissolution) 2. ) Pharmokinetuc phase : what the body does to the drug 3. ) Pharmodynamic Phase: what the drug does to the body

Question 33

Do all drugs go through the pharmaceutic phase?

Answer 33

No only solid orals drugs

Question 34

What are inactive ingredients of a drug?

Answer 34

Are fillers and inert substances that give the shape and size and aids in dissolution and absorption

Question 35

What is the active ingredient in a drug responsible for?

Answer 35

Bringing the body back to homeostasis

Question 36

Why do the elderly and infants have a slower absorbtion in the stomach ?

Answer 36

They have a slower absorption rate in their stomach because of their alkaline fluids.

Question 37

Why shouldn't you crush enteric coating and Sustained Release drugs?

Answer 37

Crushing will change the place and time of absorption

Question 38

Define Enteric coating

Answer 38

Allows a drug to dissolve only in an alkaline environment such as the small intestine

Question 39

Define Sustained Releass Drugs (SR)

Answer 39

Allows drugs to be released slowly overtime rather than quickly like conventional tablets

Question 40

What is ADME ( processes of pharmokinetics)

Answer 40

A- absoriotion D- distribution M- Metabolism E- excretion

Question 41

What does BUN stand for?

Answer 41

Blood urea nitrogen

Question 42

What two tests are used to see if excretion is happening properly?

Answer 42

Creatinine and BUN