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