Liver damage is suspected when AST and ALT labs are what?
Elevated
What sense allows a person to recognize the size, shape, and texture of an object?
Stereognosis
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
Right medication, dose, patient, route, time, and documentation
What does the acronym CUS stand for in communication strategies?
Concern, uncomfortable, and safety
Undesired, unintended, and often unpredictable responses to medication are referred to as what?
Adverse effects
The integration and interpretation of stimuli is?
Perception
An appropriate diagnosis that applies to patients with sensory alterations is?
What are the 5 rights of delegation?
Right task, circumstance, person, direction/communication, and supervision/evaluation
Type of aphasia when the patient has the inability to understand written or spoken language.
Receptive aphasia
What does it mean when a medication is enteric coated?
Enteric coatings serve as a barrier to prevent the gastric acids in the stomach from dissolving or degrading drugs after you swallow them to prevent the drugs from falling apart and losing the intended effect. Theses medications cannot be crushed or chewed but need to be swallowed whole.
Sensory deficit, deprivation, and overload are all signs of what?
Sensory alterations
Most common place for medication metabolism?
Liver
Sensory changes that can occur with aging are what?
diminished sense of taste, changes with proprioception, difficulty with high pitch sounds, and presbyopia
What is global aphasia?
The inability to understand language or communicate orally.
When a medication is given sublingual what dose this mean? What are nursing implications with this?
Medication is placed underneath the tongue. Instruct patient not to chew or swallow, but allow medication to dissolve and do not drink water right after administration or desired effect will be altered
What drug category is most common for drugs that are used in pregnancy?
Category C
Most common place for medication excretion?
Kidney
Type of aphasia when someone has the inability to express ideas and words? They know what they want to say but can't say it.
Expressive (motor) aphasia
What is the study of how medications enter the body, reach their site of action, metabolize, and exit the body?
Pharmacokinetics
Type of order that is carried out until the healthcare provider cancels it by another order or a prescribed number of days elapse.
Standing order
Who within the health care team/system can order a prescription?
Physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant
What labs are associated with kidney function?
BUN, Creatinine, and GFR
Primary nursing
Occurs when medication molecules pass into the blood from the site of medication administration.
Absorption
Occurs when members of the healthcare team meet and share patient information, answer questions asked by other team members, discuss clinical progress, and and plans for discharge.
Interprofessional rounding.