Pharmacokinetics and Routes of Administration
This term refers to the amount of time that it takes for a medication to drop by 50%.
What is Half-Life?
Important pre-assessments for medication therapy include physical examination and this term which is used to get more background information.
What is Health History?
1500 mcg = ____ mg
What is 1.5 mg?
Medications are injected in a small amount of solution, concentrated or diluted, over 1-2 minutes.
What is IV bolus?
These are undesired, inadvertent, and harmful effects of the medication.
What are adverse effects?
This term, which refers to the elimination of medications from the body, happens primarily through the kidney.
What is Excretion?
This is the expected effect (physiological response) for which the nurse administers the medication to a specific client.
What is the therapeutic effect?
Provider order of 1000 mL D5W to infuse over 4 hours.
What is the flow rate of 250 mL/hr?
This medical device is used to administer medications that can cause serious adverse reactions.
What is an infusion pump?
Severe and potentially life-threatening effects from excessive dosing but can also occur at therapeutic dose levels.
What is toxicity?
This refers to the margin that a medication can be safely given while having its intended pharmacologic effect.
What is the Therapeutic Index?
Prioritize medication administration to administer critical medications first or to know which medications need to be given prior to treatment, procedures, or meals.
What is Planning?
Administer digoxin 0.5 mg IV daily. The drug concentration available from the pharmacy is digoxin 0.25 mg/mL.
What is 2 mL?
The angle of the IV catheter during insertion.
What is 10° to 30°?
A rapid systemic reaction following an allergic response to an allergen.
What is anaphylaxis?
Also known as biotransformation, this term refers to changes to medications that make them less active or inactive utilizing enzymes.
What is metabolism?
This Latin term, meaning “in the circumstances,” refers to medication that can be given as needed.
What is Pro Re Nata (PRN)?
Provider orders 200 mg of Benadryl per day for a child who weighs 98 lbs. The safe dose of Benadryl for a child is 5 mg/kg/day.
What is the maximum safe dose of 222.5 mg/day?
This term refers to the leakage of a vesicant IV solution or medication into the subcutaneous tissue.
What is extravasation?
This can decrease the therapeutic effects of warfarin and put clients at risk of developing blood clots.
What is Vitamin K?
This refers to the action of a drug that acts by blocking the usual receptor activity.
What is antagonism/antagonist?
This term refers to the process undertaken by nurses to compare current medications and new medications in order to resolve any discrepancies.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
Provider order for 250 mL normal saline over 5 hours with tubing drop factor of 10 gtt/mL.
What is 8 gtt/min?
Symptoms of this complication include pain, warmth, edema, induration, red streaking, fever, chills, and malaise.
What is cellulitis?
Studies have demonstrated adverse effects on animal fetuses, but there are no adequate and well-controlled studies of pregnant women. Or, there have not been any studies of animals or pregnant women.
What is Category C?