Medications
Person, medication, route, frequency, dose
What are the 5 rights of medication administration?
No insulin production
What happens with type 1 diabetes?
Filgrastin (Neupogen)
What is the name of the drug that promotes WBC production?
Too much potassium
What is hyperkalemia?
the #1 modifiable risk factor in avoiding strokes.
What is hypertension?
Wacky words
What is a way to remember Warnicke's syndrome?
Order of assessment for abdomen
What is inspect, auscultate, percuss, palpate?
R.I.C.E.
What is the acronym for rest, ice, compression and elevation?
Accurate I/O.
What is a reason to place a foley catheter?
furosemide, spironolactone, bumetanide
What are diuretics?
Nervousness, shakiness, sweaty
What are symptoms of hypoglycemia?
Result of massive cell destruction, releasing intracellular components
What is tumor lysis syndrome?
Ventricular dysrhythmias
What is a symptom of hyperkalemia?
Body shape that has the greatest risk for CV health problems.
What is apple/android?
Usually looks like a blank stare that lasts seconds.
What is an absence seizure?
Route that hepatitis A is spread.
What is fecal-oral route?
Shortened extremity
What is a sign of a dislocation?
Drug used as an analgesia for symptoms of a UTI.
What is phenazopyridine (Pyridium)?
Position patient should be in during NG medication administration.
What is high-fowlers?
Onset 30-60 minutes, peak 2-5 hours, duration 5-8 hours
What are the active times of short acting insulin (regular insulin)?
An internal treatment where the patient is the source of radiation.
What is bracytherapy?
Another name for fluid deficit.
Hypovolemia
Chest pain that resolves when activity is stopped.
What is angina?
Surgical removal of plaque from carotid artery.
What is a carotid endarterectomy?
Cannot work unless in an acidic environment
What is pepsin?
ORIF
What is the acronym for open reduction, internal fixation?
Pain while urinating.
What is dysuria?
Hold this medication prior to and after a CT with contrast.
What is a precaution of taking Metformin?
Type of insulin lacking in patients with type 1 diabetes
What is endogenous insulin?
Does not spread to other tissues and organs.
What is a benign tumor?
Trousseau's and Chvosteck's signs
What are signs of hypocalcemia?
Rise slowly when getting out of bed.
What is a precaution when taking nitroglycerin?
Heart condition that contributes to a CVA
What is a-fib?
The last phase of liver disease.
What is cirrhosis?
Two bones in a fracture are separated from each other and out of alignment
What is a displaced fracture?
Infection with systemic symptoms.
What is pyelonephritis?
Best place for nurse to administer 2mL IM medication.
What is the ventrogluteal?
Blood test that determines the average blood glucose level for past 3 months.
What is hemoglobin A1C?
A complication of administering chemo intravenously
What is extravasation?
pH 7.1, PaCO2 48
What is respiratory acidosis?
The first line diuretic for hypertension
What is a thiazide diuretic?
Very impulsive behavior after this side stroke
What is a right brain stroke?
Signs of abdominal perforation
What are rigid abdomen and rebound tenderness?
Surgical decompression of involved compartment in compartment syndrome
What is a fasciotomy?
systemic infection from a urologic source
What is urosepsis?