Question

Final exam study guide Chapter 1: What is FDA's role and what legislation authorized it? What are OTC medications? What are control substance schedules and what is true about each schedule? What is parenteral route? How soon a nurse needs to check on a patient receiving parenteral pain medication? Chapter 2: What are common signs and symptoms of allergic reactions and what are nursing actions? What are peak and trough and what are they measured for? What is drug compatibility? What diseases affect metabolism? What is the fastest absorption route? What is a teratogen? What medications can be broken in half (scored pill, capsule, enteric coated)? What is placebo effect? Why elderly are at increased risk for drug interactions? What is the common drug excretion route? Chapter 12: What are the receptors of autonomic nervous system? What are anticholinergic side effects? What is patient teaching for a patient using anticholinergic medication? Chapter 13: What sedatives are used for? What hypnotics are used for? Chapter 15: What anxiolytics are used for? Chapter 18: What are the therapeutic outcomes for antiepileptic medications? What is patient teaching for someone on Dilantin? Chapter 19: When is it appropriate to administer opiate agonist such as ine? What are serious side effects of opioid agonists and what are appropriate nursing actions?

Answer 1

1. FDA is known as food and drug administration. It is a federal department and governed by US department of health and human services. Its function is to protect and promote public health. It is responsible for controling and supervising the supply and quality of following things:

1. food products
2. tobacco products
3. diet supplements
4. Prescribed and OTC drugs
5. vaccines and biopharmaceutical supply
6. blood transfusions
7. medical and surgical equipments
8. electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED)
9. cosmetics
10. animal foods and veterinary products.

​2. OTC drugs are known as over the counter drugs. These are the drugs categorised by FDA as drugs that do not need a physician prescription and not like the prescribed drugs which needs prescription from healthcare professional.

3. Many drugs and substances need to be kept in controlled substance category due to its abusive use. This comes under substance abuse act. They are divided into 5 schedules ( I,II,III,IV,V).

Substances are placed into respective schedules based on whether they are currently accepted for medical use in treatment in the United States, their abuse potential, and dependency when abused.

4. There are two routes of drug administrstion : enteral and Parenteral

Enteral route of drug administration includes administration of drug through GI tract.

Parenteral route of drug administration includes administration of drug through any route other than GI tract. The most common parenteral route are subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous.