Anti-biotics
Question the nurse would ask a patient who is newly prescribed cephalosporin to treat an infection.
What is "Are you allergic to penicillin?"
Instruction by the nurse explains the risk of taking metronidazole with alcohol?
What is "If you drink alcohol with Metronidazole, you can experience nausea, vomiting, headache, and shortness of breath?
A drug that may be helpful in managing nerve pain with tingling experienced by a diabetic patient
What is gabapentin?
The action that is critical nursing responsibilities for giving medications.
What is verify the provider's order?
This type of drug therapy for an endocrine problem can cause pregnancy loss:
Action the nurse can take when noting that a patient receiving penicillin V orally for treatment of an infection experiences nausea and stomach pain after each dose.
What is give the drug with food?
An adverse effect experienced by a patient prescribed an antifungal drug would the nurse report immediately.
What is skin rash/reaction?
The nurse is caring for a patient who is receiving short-term antacid therapy for the treatment of gastritis. The nurse instructs the patient to take the antacid:
What is 1 to 2 hours after meals?
A nurse discovers that a drug error occurred while giving noon drugs. The action the nurse takes first is:
What is assess the patient?
A hepatitis A vaccination is classified as:
What is inactive vaccine?
3 patient teachings for someone taking Tetracyclines.
What are
1. wear sunscreen or stay out of the sun
2. Take 1 hour before meals/dairy or 2 hours after meals/dairy
3. Ask is patient is on retinoids (isotretinoin, acitretin) for acne
Reviewing the results of stool specimen analysis after therapy for helminthiasis, which cue indicates to the nurse that therapy was effective.
What is sample has no more worms?
Drug that would lower the surface tension in the gastrointestinal tract and facilitate the softening of the fecal mass by intestinal fluids.
What is Docusate Sodium?
The nurse reading an order that states:
meperidine 50mg every 4 to 6 hours as needed for pain. State the missing information:
What is the route?
The nurse is preparing to give an influenza vaccine and finds the patient has a fever of 100.4°F. The action the nurse should take is:
What is do not give the vaccine?
The nurse would monitor this for a patient prescribed a cephalosporin as treatment for an infection.
What are renal functions?
The most important for the nurse to include when teaching a patient with active tuberculosis undergoing treatment with rifampin and isoniazid.
What is "You will be prescribed this drug for a long time. Let's create a schedule to ensure your compliance"?
A patient is admitted to the intensive care unit after an acetaminophen overdose, which adverse reaction would the nurse monitor for related to acetaminophen.
What is hepatic toxicity?
The patient is prescribed IV fluids to infuse at 50 mL per hour. The tubing drop factor is 20 drops/mL. Calculate the drops per minute the patient would receive. Round answer to the nearest whole number. __ drops/min
What is 17 drops/min?
Type of immunity would be required when a patient has been bitten by a venomous snake:
What is Artificial acquired passive?
A drug would the nurse expect to be used to treat a patient in a long-term care facility who develops a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.
What is Vancomycin?
Name 3 things the nurse would include in the patient-centered teaching for a patient who is prescribed rifampin.
What are
1. Discoloration of bodily fluids
2. Should be taken on an empty stomach
3. May cause vomiting, diarrhea, and sleepiness.
One of the drugs on a patient’s medication administration chart would be the likely cause of the patient’s report of difficulty starting the urine stream, a weak urine stream, and a bulge in the lower abdomen.
Name: John Smith
Age: 77 years
DrugsAllergies: None known
Diet: As tolerated
Cyclobenzaprine 10 mg orally every 8 hours
Buprenorphine 0.3 mg IV every 8 hours as needed
Nalbuphine 10 mg IV every 6 hours as needed
Prednisone 40 mg orally daily
What is Cyclobenzaprime?
The Components must a drug order contain.
What are drug name, route, frequency, patient's full name, and provider's signature?
Symptoms that a patient with hyperthyroidism likely report.
What are: hand tremors, excessive energy, thinning scalp hair, elevated heart rate?