Medication Quiz

Running head: MEDICATION QUIZ
MEDICATION QUIZ
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Answer no 1.
 Enrolled nurse must have completed their medication administration education in order to administer the medicine.
 Nurse should not have notation on their registration mentioning they have not completed their medication education (Cashin et
al., 2017).
 EN who have notation cannot administer intravenous medicine.
 EN must have completed intravenous medication administration education to administer the medicine (Birks et al., 2016).
Answer no 2.
Medicinal drug and poison when not used properly can have harmful impact on health of people. Therefore, legal and
regulatory framework for health regulation limits its exploitation by giving license and permits to health practitioner to use such
medicine in lawful manner in their practice (Small et al., 2016).
Answer no 3.
Drug and poison medicine scheduling is the system for classifying medicine in relation to location and need of prescription of
their sale and purchase respectively. It is also used to classify poison and prohibited drugs (Liew et al., 2017).
Schedule 2- narcotics, methadone, oxycodone
Schedule 3- Ketamine, anabolic steroids, testosterone

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Schedule 4- Alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam
Schedule 8- benzodiazepines, midazolam, Duromine
Answer no 4.
(a) Capsules- It is administered orally by swallowing. It should be stored in air tight container and should not be crushed before
administration. Must be stored away from sunlight and hot water/air
(b) Drops- They are oral suspension, medicine should be shake well before each administration, and given orally according to the
power of dose. Must be stored away from light and heat. Must be handled with care, do not touch the bottle of drop with naked to
prevent infection.
c) Inhalants- They are administered through oral passage of air by mouth. Shake well before use and handled it with clean hands. It
must be stored in dark environment.
d) Liquid medication- They are administered orally through mouth according to the dose. It should also be stored in light free
atmosphere.
e) Lotions and creams- It is administered in naked body by massaging in hands, face or affected body part. After using the cap
should be closed tightly to prevent contamination. Store it in dark condition (White & Bradnam, 2015).
f) Ointments- It is applied in clean and dry affected areas. It should store in dark condition.

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g) Patches- It is administered in affected areas that is clean, hairless and dry skin. It should be handled with clean hand. Store it in
vacuum condition.
h) Powders- It is dusted in skin with light layer. Patient face must be kept away from administration of powder when given near face.
It can be stored in light condition.
i) Tablets- It is administered orally by swallowing the drug. It should be handled by taking care of not being crushed or get open from
seal pack. Must be stored in dark (White & Bradnam, 2015).
j) Wafers- Wear gloves when handling wafers. The open pouches of wafer must be kept for 6 hours in room temperature. They are
kept in mouth and get dissolved in short period of time. They must be stored in dry condition and away from moisture (White &
Bradnam, 2015).
k) Suppositories- The administration is through rectal route. Must wear glove to handled it and store it in dark and dry place (White
& Bradnam, 2015).
Answer no 5.
Pharmacodynamics- It is study of pharmacology related to biochemical and molecular impact of drugs on body and its action
mechanism (Weerink et al., 2017).

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Pharmacokinetics- It is areas of pharmacology, that study the movement of drug inside the body (Sime et al., 2018).
Pharmaco-therapeutics- It is the science related to pharmacology that focus on therapeutic uses and mechanism of drugs inside the
body (Dey et al., 2017).
Answer no 6.
Polypharmacy- It is the practice of administration of multiple drug than required medically. It is common in older ambulatory
concerns and home patients. Elder people are more prone to side effect of it because of changes in metabolic and reduced drug
clearance. It can cause fatigue, tiredness, constipation, diarrhea and hallucination in people (Scott et al., 2015).
Answer no 7.
The drug is absorbed in gastrointestinal tract when swallowed and then it travels to liver via hepatic portal vein. The first pass
of drug occurs in hepatic when it is absorbed in GI tract. The enzyme presents in the liver, metabolize the drug in great extent that
majority of active agents are not able to exit from liver. Therefore, drug is not transmitted to systemic circulation (Jones et al., 2016).
Answer no 8
Half-life of drug is a phenomenon that refers to the time that would be used for the reduction of the drug to 50% of its original
dose after intake by the body. It is a pharmacokinetic measure that helps the health practitioners to estimate the proper doses of the
drug for an individual and it also estimate the elimination time of the drug from the body accurately (Kajbaf et al., 2016).

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Answer no 9.
Drug transportation through the body would be depending on the absorption and the solubility limitation of the drug. After the
drug solved in the blood it transported by means of the targeting characteristics of the pharmacokinetic moieties. However, the
electrostatic interaction between positively charged protein moieties of the drug and the negatively charged cell membranes
determines the absorption mediated transport and other type of transport system is peptide delivery in which the peptide of the drug
needed to be conjugated with certain vector moiety. Another way of transport is the receptor mediated transport where the drugs act as
receptor for cell surface attached legends or in the vice versa would be also be seen (Zhu et al., 2017).
Answer no 10.
Bioavailability of a drug refers to the fact that the rate of the active moiety of the drug to be absorbed by the body or the
amount of the active moiety to enter the circulatory system of the body and it depends on the dosage of the drug. However, the
bioequivalence of drugs are generally low due to different biological factors thus the dosage of the drugs needed to be administered by
the health practitioner on the basis of the age, gender, medical history and many other factors. All these factors would be affecting the
bioavailability of the drugs thus depending on these factors the health practitioner would prescribe a drug for a patient (Junyaprasert &
Morakul, 2015).
Answer no 11.