Legal + Ethical Issues

Question 1

What is a drug

Answer 1

Any substance or mixture of substances

Question 2

What are drugs used for

Answer 2

1. Diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention
2. Restoring, converting, or modifying organic functions
3. Disinfection when dealing with food

Question 3

What does health Canada review/assess for drug products

Answer 3

1. Safety
2. Efficacy
   3.Quality

Question 4

Drug products include

Answer 4

1. Prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals
2. Disinfectants and Sanitizers with disinfectant claims

Question 5

Canadian Drug Legislations

Answer 5

1. Canadian food + drug act
2. Controlled drugs + substances act (CDSA)

Question 6

1953: Canadian food and drug act

Answer 6

1. Food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices
2. Divided into parts and schedules

Question 7

2003: Food + drug regulations

Answer 7

1. clarifies terms, importing, and processing in the Canadian food and drug act
2. 15 000 products

Question 8

2013: Prescriptions drug list

Answer 8

1. List of all prescription drugs
2. excludes those in the controlled substances act

Question 9

1996: Controlled drugs and substances act (CDSA) replace

Answer 9

Replaces 1961 narcotics control act

Question 10

How are drugs ordered in the controlled drugs and substances act

Answer 10

schedules I-V

Question 11

What does the controlled drugs and substances act do

Answer 11

provides legislation and regulatory framework for the control of substances that alter mental processes

Question 12

What are the standards for scheduling in the controlled drugs and substances act

Answer 12

1. International standards
2. Dependency potential, risk for abuse, and abuse in Canada
3. Danger to public
4. Usefulness of the drug

Question 13

Drugs that alter mental processes cause risk

Answer 13

of harm to individuals or society when diverted or misused

Question 14

Key points of the CDSA

Answer 14

1. Alter mental processes
2. Harm Risk
3. Divided into schedules
4. Only obtained by prescription by licensed practitioner

Question 15

Who developed the national drug schedule

Answer 15

National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA)

Question 16

What recommendations does the national drug schedule follow

Answer 16

National Drug Scheduling Advisory Committee (NDSAC)

Question 17

What does the National Drug Advisory Committee determine

Answer 17

public access to drugs by 3 schedules and 1 unscheduled category

Question 18

Schedule 1

Answer 18

Requires Prescription

Question 19

Schedule 2

Answer 19

Only at pharmacy, behind desk, non-perscription

Question 20

Schedule 3

Answer 20

Pharmacy, self selection

Question 21

Unscheduled

Answer 21

Available in any retail center

Question 22

How are drugs named

Answer 22

1. Chemical Name
2. Generic Name
3. Brand/Trade name
4. DIN

Question 23

Chemical Name

Answer 23

based on chemical structure of drug
-N-acetyl-para-aminophenol

Question 24

Generic Name

Answer 24

Less complex, assigned by drug developer
-Acetaminophen

Question 25

Brand/Trade Name

Answer 25

Market Name -Tylenol

Question 26

DIN

Answer 26

Drug Identification Number

Question 27

Canadian Nursing Association: Ethical Considerations for drug use

Answer 27

1. Promote safe, compassionate, competent care 2.Promote health and wellbeing 3. Promote and respect informed decisions 4. Honor and dignity 5. Maintain Privacy and confidentiality 6. promote justice 7. be accountable

Question 28

Ethnocultural Considerations assess

Answer 28

Assess the influence of a patients cultural beliefs, values, and customs

Question 29

What are the ethnocultural considerations

Answer 29

1. environmental (Diet + Nutrition) 2. Ethnocultural + genetic factors (Adherence to therapy)

Question 30

Ethnocultural consideration assessment

Answer 30

1. Health beliefs + practices 2. past use of medicine 3. folk remedies 4. home remedies 5. non-prescription drugs + natural health remedies 6. response to medical treatment 7. religious beliefs + practices 8. dietary habits

Question 31

Natural health products (NHPs)

Answer 31

vitamins, minerals and supplements

Question 32

What considers NHPs as drugs

Answer 32

food and drug act- natural health product regulations

Question 33

what doesn't consider NHPs drugs

Answer 33

food and drug regulations

Question 34

Always ask what medications patients are on including:

Answer 34

NHPs