Routes and Forms of Medications
Medication name has letters that follow such as XR, CR, XL
What is A Special form of medication, do not crush or chew?
Undesirable effects of a drug
What is a side effects?
Medication we take as needed
What is a PRN?
The drug amount prescribed for administration
What is the dose?
Examples include pudding, yogurt, or applesauce
What is a vehicle?
Effects the entire body
What is systemic Effect?
A life threatening reaction causing a breathing emergency
What is anaphylaxis?
Medication we can buy at our local Target
What is an OTC?
The most commonly used weight of a medication
What is MG(milligrams)?
What must be done prior to administering nasal spray
What is gently blow nose?
What effects a specific site of the body?
What is Local Effect
When 2 medications work together to create an expected result
What is a drug interaction?
Medications that are monitored due to the risk of addiction
What is a controlled substance?
Measures liquid such as ML(milliliters)
What is Volume?
The amount of time a person should wait between puffs of an inhaler
What is 1 minute?
Placed under the tongue
What is sublingual?
A bothersome effect with potential to cause harm
What is an adverse effect?
Done at the beginning and end of the shift
What is control counts?
What we use to most accurately measure liquid medications
What is the measuring device that comes with the medicine?
The direction we pull the ear for medicated drops
What is up and back?
Medication that is mixed in a fatty base
What is an ointment?
This food is well known to cause drug interactions
What is grapefruit?
Assigned by the lab and manufacturer that develops a drug
What is the generic name?
Shake it
What do we do with all liquid medications?
The number of times we check the 7 rights
What is 3 times?