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Worksheets1. Pharmacology KA - 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
This type of medication was not discovered until the early 1900's.
Penicillin
Morphine
Cocaine
Which medication change often occurs when a drug demonstrates a wide margin of safety and is used over long periods of time?
Therapeutic to effective.
Prescription-only to over-the-counter (OTC) drug.
What type of medication order should be given immediately or only at once?
A STAT order
A prn order
An ASAP order
What is not a barrier to distribution of medications?
Blood-lung barrier
Blood-placental barrier
Blood-Brain barrier
If a drug is bound to a plasma protein, it is active.
True
False
Which of the following drugs was once used as a local anesthetic in eye surgery?
Cocaine
Caffeine
Amphetamine
The six rights of drug administration is the right patient gets the right drug via the right route at the right dose and time, followed by the right documentation.
True
False
Drugs that slow down an enzyme in the CYP450 isoenzyme system would be called:
Substrates
Co-enzymes
Inhibitors
What is the act of cutting a hole into the skull to give the disease a portal for evil spirits to leave called?`
Blood Letting
Trepanation
Leaching
A pharmacy technician instructor wants to define the term pharmacology for the student. Which definition is most appropriate?
The use of medicine to treat disease
The study of medicine
The use of herbs, natural extracts, vitamins, minerals, or dietary supplements to treat diseases
The pharmacy technician is discussing the advantages over-the-counter (OTC) medications with a patient. Which statements are disadvantages of OTC drugs versus prescription drugs?
OTC drugs are more expensive than prescription drugs.
Self-treatment is sometimes ineffective.
A pharmacy technician is discussing generic and trade drugs with a patient. The patient wants to know why it takes so long for trade drugs to become available in the generic form, which are generally cheaper. What is the pharmacy technicians' best response?
It takes 20 years for all pharmaceutical companies to develop a generic version of the drug.
Sole ownership of a drug allows the pharmaceutical company to earn back the money spent to develop the drug.
Which medication would fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act?
Morphine
Amoxicillin
Ibuprofen
What is a disadvantage of administering medication via the subcutaneous or intramuscular route?
This route allows only small volumes to be administered.
This route allows medications to avoid digestive enzymes.
The six rights of drug administration is the right patient gets the right drug via the right route at the right dose and time, followed by the right documentation.
True
False
Natural alternative therapies are agents naturally produced in animal cells, in microorganisms, or by the body itself, such as hormones and vaccines.
True
False
A pharmacist is teaching pharmacokinetics to the pharmacology class. What statement, made by a student, would show the class understands this term?
"Pharmacokinetics is what the body does to a drug."
"Pharmacokinetics is what a drug does to the body."
Alternative routes of drug delivery, other than oral, may be needed if the drug is subject to the first-pass effect.
True
False
Active transport involves the passive transportation of a substance down the concentration gradient, from high concentration to low concentration.
True
False
The six rights of drug administration is the right patient gets the right drug via the right route at the right dose and time, followed by the right documentation.
True
False
