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Trade names are assigned by the ____.

Your instructor asks you to identify the prototype drugs for each drug classification. Therefore, you indicate the ____. 

The abbreviation for capsule is ____.

Logan, who has terminal cancer, has a prn order for an anxiolytic injection.  When it is administered, the hospice nurse should note dose, time, route, location of injection, and ____.

Mackenzie has an eye inflammation commonly that is called “pink” or “red” eye.  She most likely has ____.

Emmaline has metastatic breast cancer and the tumor produces excess amounts of a protein called HER2. She is being treated with herceptin. What type of drug is herceptin?

Vanya’s grandmother is against taking drugs in general, but decides to take an over-the-counter medication for diarrhea. Vanya informs her that some antidiarrheal medications can contain a controlled substance known as ____.

The primary cause of COPD is ____.

What legislation requires that new drugs be approved before they are released to the public?

You take your first telephone order from a doctor on your first day of work at a nursing home. You carefully write out the order for a medication to be given twice a day, using the abbreviation “b.i.d.” in the chart. Your supervisor reviews your notes and informs you that periods should not be used with medical abbreviations. What is her reasoning?