Transcript Ch1 and 2 student

Chapters 1 & 2
 Recognizes __________________ (allergic and anaphylactic) and side effects to medications
 Monitors ___________________ and recovers patients
 Monitors ____________________ patients’ response to medications
 ____________________ medications as prescribed
 _____________ medications to clients, ___________________ how to administer, ______________ their questions
 _______________________ why patients are on certain medications
 Fill drug _____________ and correctly write drug ___________
 Properly _______________ administered medication
 Correctly _________________ drug doses
 All drugs are potentially ________________.
 Drug safety may depend on its ____________ of administration.
 Many medications are ____________-specific.
 Be cautious of getting too __________________ with medications.
 The published ___________________ does not always produce a safe dose.
 When you begin to administer the same medications routinely, inappropriate dose
calculations should “feel wrong”.
 TRADE NAME
 Also called the _________________ name
 Written in capital letters or begins with a capital letter
 Considered a proper noun
 May only be used by the company that registered the drug
 Registered by the U.S. Patent Office (approved by the USDA)
 May have _____ or _____ next to the name to imply that the product is
registered
 Benadryl
 GENERIC NAME
 Also called the ____________________ name
 Written in ___________ case
 Official identifying name of the drug
 Describes the active drug(s) in the product
 Easier to pronounce than the chemical name
 diphenhydramine hydrochloride
 CHEMICAL NAME
 Describes the chemical structure of the drug (structure is sometimes seen on
package inserts)
 Long, wordy, hard to say
 Rarely used when describing medications
 2(Diphenylmethoxy)-N,N-dimethylethylamine hydrochloride
 _______________= determination of the amount of drug to be given. Requires calculation.
 15 mg/kg, 10 g/lb
 _______________= amount of drug administered to a patient at one time. Stated in units of mass
(mg, g, gr, etc. ), NOT tablets or milliliters.
 50 mg
_______________ – powdered drug compressed into disk
 Molded: chewable, mixed with a sugar and flavored
 Enteric-coated: have coating that protects the drug against the acidity of the stomach; allows
it to remain intact until the small intestines.
_______________– powdered drug compressed into capsule-shaped tablet
___________(aka CAPSULE)- container made of gelatin that house a powder or liquid.
______________ (aka lozenge) – powdered drug in a hard, candy-like tablet that is kept
in the mouth and slowly dissolved
____________________– medication placed in the rectum where it is dissolved and
absorbed
_______________- large rectangular tablets given to large animals with a balling gun
 ________________- drug is completely dissolved
in a liquid and does not settle out or precipitate
when left standing
 Syrup: drug is dissolved in sugar water
 Elixir: drug is dissolved in alcohol and flavored
 ________________- drug that does not dissolve
within liquid, but settles at the bottom of a
container. Needs to be shaken to evenly
resuspend.
 Emulsion: drug is mixed with a liquid fat or an oil
 ______________- semisolid that keeps its form at
body temperature