Pharmacokinetics and Routes of Administration
The route of administration with the fastest rate of absorption.
What is intravenous?
The official nonproprietary name given to a medication.
What is the generic name?
The conversion factor from kg to lbs.
What is 2.2 lbs./kg?
Involves infusion of fluids via an IV catheter to administer medications, fluid replacement, electrolytes or nutrients
What is Intravenous Therapy?
Undesired, inadvertent, and harmful effects of a medication.
What is an Adverse Effect?
The time for the medication in the body to drop by 50%.
What is a half-life?
How the medication produces its therapeutic effect.
What is the mechanism of action?
The correct amount of tablets to give when a prescription calls for a 1200mg dose and available is 300mg tablets.
What is 4 tablets?
A medical device that delivers fluids such as medications and nutrients into the client's body in controlled amounts.
What is an Infusion Pump?
Abnormal body movements such as tremors, rigidity, restlessness, acute dystonia (spastic movements of the back, neck, face, tongue), drooling, agitation and shuffling gait.
What is Extrapyramidal Symptoms?
The direction you pull the auricle when administering ear drops for children less than 3 years old.
What is down and back?
One of the rights of safe medication administration pertaining to correctly interpreting medication prescriptions, verifying completeness and clarity.
What is the "Right Medication"?
What is 0.7mL?
IV dressing site are changed according to facilities policies usually every
What is 72 hours?
Medication-induced injury to the liver cells
What is Hepatotoxicity?
The direction you position the client when administering a rectal suppository.
What is the left lateral or Sim's Position.
One of the rights of safe medication administration involving collecting essential data before and after administering any medication
What is the "Right Assessment"?
The correct dosage in milliliters when a prescription calls for 9mg/kg/day when the patient weighs 110lbs and available is 50mg/5mL.
What is 45 mL?
Priority nursing intervention to prevent infusion reaction.
What is Stop the Infusion?
A rapid systemic reaction following an allergic response to an allergen.
What is Anaphylaxis?
When some medications get inactivated due to going through the liver first.
What is the first-pass effect?
The proper way to write MgSO4 in a prescription to avoid medication errors.
What is magnesium sulfate?
The correct manual IV infusion rate in gtt/min (rounded to the nearest whole number) when the prescription calls for 1000mL to be infused over 4 hours and the drop factor for the IV tubing is 10 gtt/mL.
An IV complication the causes edema, throbbing, burning or pain at the site, increased skin temperature
What is Phlebitis or Thrombophlebitis?
Vitamin K decreases the therapeutic effects of this medication and can put clients at risk for developing blood clots.
What is Warfarin?