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This type of medication binds to a receptor and activates it.
What is an agonist?
This pharmacokinetic phase describes a medication moving from its administration site into the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
Room number, physical appearance, or "I know this patient" should never replace these before medication administration.
What are appropriate patient identifiers?
A patient is taking several medications. One drug changes how another medication acts in the body.
What is a drug-drug interaction?
This is the first phase in the nursing process.
What is assessment?
This type of medication binds to a receptor and blocks another substance from activating it.
What is an antagonist?
This phase describes medication moving from the bloodstream into body tissues.
What is distribution?
A medication order is missing the dosage. This is the nurse's next action.
What is contacting provider for clarification?
The nurse knows to education a patient on Coumadin to avoid green leafy veggies. This is known as
What is drug-food interactions?
Before beginning medication education, the nurse should first determine what the patient already knows.
What is assessing the patient's baseline knowledge?
The intended beneficial results of a medication is called this.
What is a therapeutic effect?
The liver plays a major role in this pharmacokinetic phase.
What is metabolism?
The nurse discovers the patient has an allergy to the ordered medication. What is the nurse's next action?
What is hold the medication and notify the provider?
What is less free medication available for distribution?
When teaching a patient with limited health literacy, the nurse should use this type of language instead of medical jargon.
What is simple, clear language?
An undesirable or harmful reaction to a medication is called this.
What is an adverse effect?
BUN, creatinine and GFR are especially important when evaluating this phase of pharmacokinetcs.
What is excretion?
This refers to the range of medication levels in the body that is most likely to produce the desired effect while minimizing adverse effects.
What is therapeutic range?
A patient is taking multiple medications that may affect the same receptor sites. Which complication should the nurse monitor for closely?
What is medication toxicity?
During assessment the patient tells you verbally about their symptoms. What data is this?
What is subjective data?
A medication has these 3 different names.
What is chemical name, generic name and trade name?
A patient has severe liver disease. The nurse knows medication clearance may decrease, causing this change in the bloodstream.
What is an increased medication/plasma concentration and increased risk for toxicity?
During medication reconciliation, the nurse should compare the medication list in the computer to this important source of information.
What is patient's report of medications taken at home?
Which medication do you need to monitor peak and trough levels for?
What is vancomycin?
A nurse teaches a patient how to self-administer a new injectable medication. After demonstrating the procedure, the patient says "I understand how to do it." What should the nurse do next to best determine whether the teaching was effective?
What is return demonstration?