MEDICATION AIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A|BRAND NEW!! absorption - ANSWER- the process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to circulating fluids for distribution adrenergic blocking agent - ANSWER- a drug that inhibits adrenergic effects anti-dysrhythmic agents - ANSWER- drugs used to prevent or correct abnormal heart rhythms battery - ANSWER- touching a person's body without their consent angiotensin - ANSWER- a substance that causes vaso-constriction, increased blood pressure, and the release of aldosterone alopecia - ANSWER- hair loss IM - ANSWER- intramuscular IV - ANSWER- intravanous mg - ANSWER- milligram defamation - ANSWER- injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third person false imprisonment - ANSWER- unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement tort - ANSWER- a wrong committed against a person or the person's property HIPAA - ANSWER- health insurance protability and accountability act DNR - ANSWER- do not resuscitate OBRA - ANSWER- omnibus budget reconciliation act boundary crossing - ANSWER- a brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone boundary signs - ANSWER- acts, behaviors, or thoughts that warn of boundary crossing or violation boundary violation - ANSWER- an act of behavior that meets your needs, not the person's nurse practice act - ANSWER- the law that regulates nursing practice in a state hemoglobin - ANSWER- substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen and gives it color barbiturates - ANSWER- butabarbital (Butisol), mephobarbital (Mebaral), pentobarbital (Nembutal), phenobarbital (Luminal, Solfoton), secobarbital (Seconal) SE: hangover, sedation, excitement, restlessness, confusion, allergic reactions benzodiazepines (sedation/hypnosis) - ANSWER- estazolam (ProSom), flurazpam (Dalmane), lorazepam (Ativan), quazepam (Doral), temazepam (Restoril), triazolam (Halcion) SE: confusion, agitation, hallucinations, amnesia, liver toxicity analgesic - ANSWER- a drug that relieves pain euphoria - ANSWER- an exaggerated feeling or state of physical or mental well-being fatty oxidase enzyme inhibitor - ANSWER- a drug that reduces the oxygen needed by myocardial cells to cause muscle contractions MI - ANSWER- myocardial infarction mm Hg - ANSWER- millimeters of mercury vulnerable adult - ANSWER- a person 18 or older who has a disability or condition that makes them at risk to be wounded, attacked, or damaged ulcer - ANSWER- a shallow or deep crater-like sore of a mucous membrane tablet - ANSWER- a dried, powdered drug compressed into a small disk capsule - ANSWER- gelatin container that holds a drug in a dried, powdered or liquid form diabetes - ANSWER- a disorder in which the body cannot produce or use insulin properly coating agents - ANSWER- drugs that form a substance that adheres to the crater of an ulcer aldosterone - ANSWER- a substance that causes the kidneys to retain sodium six rights - ANSWER- right person, right drug, right time, right route, right dose, right documentation right person - ANSWER- 1 of 6 right drug - ANSWER- 2 of 6 right time - ANSWER- 3 of 6 right route - ANSWER- 4 of 6 right dose - ANSWER- 5 of 6 right documentation - ANSWER- 6 of 6