NURS215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deep Brain Stimulation, Taxus Brevifolia, Occupational Therapy
23 Nov 2017
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A: chemistry; help to understand the active ingredients that affect the body. A: isolation of active and therapeutic substances found in natural products that were later synthetically (with other chemical constituents)created in the lab to be sold and used. Q: scientists are continually looking for _____ to made into medications/drugs. A: originally worked on all infections (except viral ones), many classes of it now and creations, A: from the bulb of the poppy after its bloomed (the bulb oozes a substance which is the opium) Offered in stored, and people bought them without knowing it was addictive. Q: what is the purpose of pharmacology? (3) A: to create cures, relieve symptoms, and improves quality of life. Q: what do you as a nurse need to know about pharm? (4) Q: even though creation of cures is the #1 goal in pharm, when we cannot create cures the next purpose is too .
