NUR 105 Exam 3
- Chemical Name
Answer The name of the exact ingredients of the medication (propanoic acid).
- Generic Name
Answer Also called the nonproprietary name. Assigned by the US Adopt- ed Name Council, based in part on the chemical name (ibuprofen).
- Brand Name
Answer Also called the trade name. Owned by the pharmaceutical company (Mortin, Aleeve, Advil).
- Prescrption Medications
Answer Available with written direction form a health-care provider with perscriptive authority.
- What is included on a percription?
- Patient's and health care provider's identifying information
Answer
- Medication name
- Dose
- Instructions for pharmacist
- Any special instructions
- Directions for patient
- Over the Counter Medications (OTC)
Answer 1 / 3
Available withour perscription, and can also be reffered to as nonprescription medications.
- Routes of Medication Administration
- Oral
Answer
- Sublingual (under the tongue)
- Mucosal route (rectum, vagina, eye, ear)
- Topical route
- Parenteral (beneat the skin)
- Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Control Act
Answer Responsible for categorizing drugs according to their abuse potential using a schedule from 1- 5.
- Schedule 2 Drugs
Answer Kept under double lock and must be counted at the end of every shift. High potential for abuse (morphine, codieine, fentanyl, oxycodone).
- Schedule 1 Drugs
Answer Highly addictive and have no medical purpose, also known as "street drugs" (heroine, LSD, cannabis).
- Schedule 3 Drugs
Answer Less risk for abuse than those in schedule 1 and 2 (ace- tometaphin with codeine, anabolic steroids).
- Schedule 4 Drugs
Answer 2 / 3
Lower potential for abuse and depedency than scheudule 3 drugs (diazepam, lorazepam).
- Schedule 5 Drugs
Answer Lowest potential for abuse, a perscription may not be required.
- Side Effect
Answer An unintended outcome takes place (patient feels dizzy upon standing for a few seconds).
- Adverse effects
Answer Unintended but more severe or harmful than side effects (chronic illness, drug allergies, liver or renal failure).
- Allergic Reactions
Answer When a patient's body reacts to the medication as a foreign invader to be destroyed.
- Anaphylaxis
Answer More severe reaction that is life threatening. Causes swelling of the airways, SOB, respiratory arrest, decreased blood pressure, and eventually circulatory collapse.
- What do you do when a patient states an allergy?
Answer Document it as an allergy, as well as the description of the reaction when the medication is taken.
- Therapeutic Level
- / 3