Pharm
This beta-blocker is commonly used to decrease heart rate and blood pressure and is frequently prescribed after myocardial infarction?
What is Metoprolol or Propranolol?
This is a step you should do to prevent contamination when administering eye drops.
Avoid touching the dropper to the eye or any surface.
This device delivers 1-6L/min of oxygen and is commonly used for stable patients needing low-flow oxygen.
What is nasal cannula?
This bronchodilator is used as a “rescue inhaler” for acute asthma attacks and works by relaxing the bronchial smooth muscle.
What is Albuterol?
A patient complains of fever, back pain, and vital signs show their BP has dropped, what type of reaction is occurring?
What is a hemolytic reaction?
This measurement guides how far the nurse should insert the suction catheter for nasopharyngeal suctioning.
What is measuring from the tip of nose, to the ear?
These medications, such as diltiazem and amlodipine, lower blood pressure by relaxing blood vessels and decreasing calcium influx into cardiac cells.
What are Calcium Channel Blockers?
What are 3 examples of things a nurse should do before administering blood?
Verify order & blood product (patient, cross match, expiration), check patient ID and allergies, assess baseline vitals, prime IV with NS, ensure IV is patent, 2 nurses' bedside
A patient with COPD is short of breath. The nurse hears continuous, high-pitched, musical sounds on expiration that improve after patient uses a bronchodilator. Which adventitious breath sound is being described?
What are wheezes?
This type of medication suppresses inflammation and immune response but requires monitoring for hyperglycemia and infection risk.
What are Corticosteroids?
This is something you should NEVER do in the arm with a PICC line?
What is taking a BP or drawing blood from that arm?
A patient is receiving oxygen via a nasal cannula at 3L/min asks if they can use petroleum jelly on dry lips and nose. What is the nurse’s best response?
Advise the patient to use a water-based lubricant instead because petroleum products are flammable.
These lipid-lowering medications work by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase and require monitoring for this serious adverse effect involving muscle breakdown.
What are Statins?
This type of inhaler requires shaking before use, breathing out prior to administration, and holding your breath for a count of 10 seconds while inhalation.
What is a metered dose inhaler?
What are 3 early signs of hypoxemia?
Tachypnea, tachycardia, restlessness, pallor of skin & mucous membranes, elevated BP, symptoms of respiratory distress (accessory muscle use, nasal flaring, tracheal tugging, adventitious lung sounds)