STUDY QUESTION AND ANSWER📚 ON MEDICATION.

The doctor orders medication to be given to Mr James by the nurse . The process in which the medication(drug) is transfered from its site of origin into the body to the bloodstream is called what?.

A.Excretion.

B.Metabolism.

C.Absorption.

D.Intake.

Correct answer is C. (Absorption)

Rationale: Absorption is the transportation or the movement of drug into the bloodstream after the drug (medication) has been given.A,B,and D are wrong. Distribution is to spread, excretion is to remove from the body as a waste and intake is to take something (drug or nutrients through the mouth 👄)

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A Registered Nurse with over twenty years of hospital experience, an author with Masters Degree in Nursing,also Bachelor Degree in Nursing,graduated in 1996 from USC,University of Southern California.MSN in 2009 University of Phoenix.

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