A nurse is teaching nursing students about the use of nonproprietary names for drugs. The nurse tells them which fact about nonproprietary names?
a. They are approved by the FDA and are easy to remember.
b. They are assigned by the U.S. Adopted Names Council.
c. They clearly identify the drug's pharma-cologic classification.
d. They imply the efficacy of the drug and are less complex.
B
Nonproprietary, or generic, names are assigned by the U.S. Adopted Names Council, which en-sures that each drug has only one name. Trade names, or brand names, are approved by the FDA and are easier to remember. Some nonproprietary names contain syllables that identify the clas-sification, although not all do. Drug names are not supposed to identify the use for the drug, al-though some brand names do so.
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