Fluid & Electrolytes
The lab ranges for potassium & sodium.
What are potassium 3.5-5.0 mEq/L & sodium 135-145 mEq/L?
Framework/phases of the nursing process (steps, in order)
What are assess, analyze, identify (human needs statement), implement & evaluate?
The study of the biochemical and physiologic interactions of drugs at their sites of activity. It examines the effect of the drug on the body.
What is pharmacodynamics?
The study of how certain genetic traits affect drug response.
What is pharmacogenomics?
A common cause of adverse health care outcomes and can range from having no significant effect to directly causing patient disability or death.
What is a medication error?
This process begins on the patient's admission to the health care setting.
What is teaching-learning?
What are osmotic, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, loop, potassium-sparing & thiazide diuretics?
At least three signs/symptoms of hypernatremia.
What are fever, restlessness, fluid overload, edema, dry mouth, flushed skin, altered mental status (LOC), decreased urinary output, thirst, HTN, decreased energy?
Nine rights of medication administration.
What are drug, dose, route, time, patient, documentation, refusal, reason, response?
Represents the drug absorption into, distribution and metabolism within, and excretion from the body
What is pharmacokinetics?
The duty to tell the truth; related nursing actions include telling the truth with regard to placebos, investigational new drugs, and informed consent.
What is veracity?
Any undesirable occurrence related to administration of or failure to administer a prescribed medication.
What is adverse drug event?
What is psychomotor domain?
The name of a diuretic you would administer to a patient whose potassium is 6.2 mEq/L.
What is furosemide or bumetanide?
At least three signs/symptoms of hyperkalemia.
What are muscle weakness, cardiac arrythmia (EKG changes), muscle cramps/weakness, respiratory distress, decreased contractility of heart, decreased urine output?
The five (5) pregnancy categories of drugs.
What are A, B, C, D & X?
The condition of producing adverse bodily effects because of poisonous qualities.
What is toxicity
The duty to do no harm to a patient; related nursing actions include avoiding doing any deliberate harm while rendering nursing care.
What is nonmaleficence?
An immunologic reaction resulting from an unusual sensitivity of a patient to a certain medication; a type of adverse drug event and a subtype of adverse drug reactions.
What is an allergic reaction?
Conduct that expresses feelings, needs, beliefs, values, and opinions; the feeling domain
What is affective domain?
This drug can be used in the treatment of patients in the early oliguric phase of acute renal failure or in patients with increased intracranial pressure.
What is mannitol?
Priority indication to administer whole blood products.
What is extreme (over 25%) loss of blood volume? Whole blood also contains plasma and plasma proteins, the chief osmotic component, which help draw fluid back into blood vessels from surrounding tissues
The method of calculating pediatric medication dosages to ensure accuracy.
What is weight based dosing?
In pharmacokinetics, the time required for half of an administered dose of drug to be eliminated by the body, or the time it takes for the blood level of a drug to be reduced by 50%.
What is half-life?
This field is an expanding body of knowledge for understanding the specific impact of cultural factors on patient drug response.
What is ethnopharmacology?
Unexpected, unintended, or excessive responses to medications given at therapeutic dosages (as opposed to overdose); one type of adverse drug event.
What is an adverse drug reaction?
The most important factor a nurse should assess to ensure the patient understands health information and instructions.
What is the current knowledge/literacy of the patient's health?
This classification of diuretic has an adverse effect of reducing potassium and sodium levels and elevating levels of calcium, lipids, glucose, and uric acid.
What is thiazide diuretics?
Antidote for potassium toxicity
What is polystyrene sulfonate (kayexalate) or hemodialysis?
Age-related changes in metabolism, such as decreased liver and kidney function, can increase the risk of this in older adults when administering medications.
What is drug toxicity?
The time required for a drug to reach its maximum therapeutic response in the body.
What is peak?
Specific to each state this document further defines/identifies (1) the scope of nursing practice, (2) expanded nursing roles, (3) educational requirements for nurses, (4) standards of care, (5) minimally safe nursing practice, and (6) differences between nursing and medical practice.
What is a Nurse practice act.
This accreditation body for many hospitals initiated an awareness campaign encourages patients to take a more active role in their health care by "speaking up" & asking questions.
What is the joint commission?
Barriers to learning, emotional status, financial status/issues/concerns, health beliefs, health literacy & cognitive abilities.
What are necessary topics included in the assessment of learning needs related to drug therapy?
The diuretic of choice for acute exacerbation of heart failure & pulmonary edema
What is furosemide?