What are the three phases of drug action?

What is involved in the pharmaceutical phase?

What does the US Pharmacopoeia- National Foundry ( USP-NF) ensure?

What does the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research do for drugs?

What is the FDA review and approval process?

After the preclinical phase what happens?

For every 10,000 potential drug compounds, how many become marketable drugs?

What is the pharmacokinetic Phase?

Define the absorption phase that aoccurs during the pharmacokinetic phase?

When a drug is administered orally what is the process of getting to circulation?

What are the different routes of dbsorption in the body?

How does solubility affectabsorption?

What are things that can affect absorption of a drug?

How does the process of distribution work with the pharmacokinetic phase of drugs?

How may inert molecules added to drugs affect drug absorption?

How are water soluble drugs carried through the blood stream?

What are some issues with drugs that need to bind with proteins?

What are some challenges for drugs that must be absorbed through the GI tract?

What is the process of oxidizing drugs ?

What is the first pass effect?

What is the significance of CYP450 enzyme in drug metabolism?

What are factors that affect pharmacokinetic metabolism?

What is the elimination phase of pharmacokinetics?

What are the factors that affect elimination of drug metabolites?

What is half-life?

What is a steady state of a drug level?

What is a loading dose?

What is the pharmacodynamic phase of pharmacology?

What is and agonist drug?

What is an antagonist drug?

What is affinity?

What is selectivity?

What is allosteric binding?

What is the efficacy of a drug?

What is the potency of a drug?

What is an idiosyncratic effect?

What is the tolerance of a drug?

What are the schedules of controlled substances?

What are the pregnancy categories of drugs?

What gives nurses legal authority ot administer drugs?