Type of Medication Orders
The prescriber writes a prescription to alter or discontinue the medication or indicates on the original prescription a specific stop date.
What is a written order?
Medications that are held in the cheek.
What is a buccal medication?
Primarily in the liver
What is metabolism?
Disposable, stainless steel sheaths that attach to a syringe.
What are needles?
This means that a single dose of medication is to be given immediately and only once.
What is a STAT order?
Medications held under the tongue.
What is a sublingual medication?
Organs of excretion.
What are the liver, kidneys, lungs, Exocrine glands and GI tract?
The inside diameter of the needle. Usually numbered 14 to 30.
What is a gauge?
These are officially accepted sets of prescriptions to be applied routinely by nurses for the care of patients under certain conditions or under certain circumstances, such as drug allergies or sensitivities. They establish guidelines for treating a particular disease or set of symptoms.
What is a standing order?
For patients who cannot swallow or who have feeding tubes, you can give oral medications through nasogastric (NG), gastrostomy, or jejunal tubes.
What are enteral medications?
The transportation of a drug in body fluids (usually in the bloodstream) to the various tissues and parts of the body?
What is distribution?
The slanted tip with a narrow slit. Prevents leakage of mediation, blood, and serum.
What is the bevel?
A prn prescription requires the nurse to determine, in collaboration with the patient, when the medication is to be given. The prescription specifies (1) the condition for which the medication is to be given and (2) the minimum time intervals between doses. The medication cannot be given any more frequently than prescribed, even if symptoms persist. Pain medications, antiemetics (antinausea medications), and laxatives are usually given prn.
What is a prn order?
What are topical drugs?
For this to occur drug molecules must be removed from their sites of action and eliminated from the body.
What is excretion?
Protocols that hospitals use for discontinuing medications after a certain length of time.
What are automatic stop dates?
Drugs that are swallowed and absorbed through the stomach or small intestines.
What are oral medications?
What is the blood brain barrier?
A resheathing system with a sliding barrel that shields a needle, syringes with a retractable needles, and needles with attached coves that reduce the risk fo accidental puncture with contaminated needle.
What is a safety needle?