NYU Nursing Pharmacology EXAM
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Pharmacokinetics - Correct Answers ✅MOTION:
How medications are absorbed, distributed and metabolized into cells -> tissues -> organs. Also how they are excreted.
What is pharmacodynamics? - Correct Answers ✅ACTION:
Effects of drugs on the body. How drugs mimic the body's own chemical receptors.What is pharmacogenetics? - Correct Answers ✅How an individual's genetics influence their response to a drug.What are the phases of pharamcokinetics? - Correct Answers ✅1. Absorption
- Distribution
- Metabolism
- Excretion
What happens during absorption? - Correct Answers ✅The drug moves through the GI tract into the bloodstream.What happens during a drug's distribution? - Correct Answers ✅1. Some metabolites of the drug will bind to proteins (typically albumin). This causes inactivity. 1 / 2
NYU Nursing Pharmacology EXAM
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- Some metabolites will be free and unbound. These are
- Most drugs are 89% likely to bind,whereas less than 30%
- It is important to note that patients with liver and kidney
active.
low protein bound.How does hypoalbuminemia affect drug distribution? - Correct Answers ✅Lower concentrations of these plasma proteins causes an excess availability of the free drug to be active. This can cause toxicity.As a nurse how can we prevent drug toxicity? - Correct Answers ✅Always check the plasma protein & albumin content of a patient's blood sample.
issues are at a higher likelihood to develop drug toxicity.What are examples of changes in blood flow that will interrupt a drug's distribution, further leading to drug toxicities? - Correct Answers ✅- Wounds, abscesses, exudates, and tumors.
- Drug based affinities: some drugs can accumulate in fat,
bone, liver muscle, and eye tissue.
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