Unit 1

4. Lab level drawn 30-60 minutes after drug has been infused
7. The process of drug movement throughout the body that is necessary to achieve drug action.
9. Study of the way the drugs affect the body
12. ______ change in the older adult is the first time of drug toxicity.
13. An effect that occurs when one drug reduces or blocks the effect of the second drug
14. An effect when two drugs work together to produce a greater clinical effect than if given individually
15. Doubling Checking ___ ___ medication with another nurse before administration is correct safety measures.

1. In the older adult decrease total body water can alter the volume of distrubution of medication. This is known as ____ ____ in the older client.
2. Risk if 2 highly protein bound drugs are given together to a patient with low plasma protein levels
3. This should be reviewed each appointment/admission to make sure the patient is not duplicating or not taking medications.
5. Protein unbound or ___ drugs exit the bloodstream and cause a pharmacological response
6. How long it takes for the drug to start working. It is the time it takes the drug to reach a minimum of effective concentration.
8. Enteric-coated drugs disintegrate much ____ in the gastric acid of the stomach
10. Sum of the effects of two drugs
11. Document medication administration ____ the medication is given.