Routes
This is the route of administration where medication is absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract, typically in pill, liquid, or capsule form.
What is oral/orally?
This is the use of five or more medications by a non-hospitalized patient.
What is polypharmacy?
This method is used to prevent leakage of medication into subcutaneous tissue during an intramuscular injection.
What is the Z-track method?
What is the most common medical error?
What is a medication error?
This is the first step before administering any medication to a patient.
What is verifying the patient’s identity?
This route involves placing medication under the tongue for rapid absorption.
What is sublingual?
This is the time it takes the medication to fall to half its strength through excretion.
What is half-life?
This is the standard angle of needle insertion for an intramuscular injection to ensure the medication reaches the muscle tissue.
What is 90°?
This type of reaction develops when the body perceives a medication as a foreign substance (allergen), which stimulates an immune response.
What is an allergic reaction?
This should be done immediately after the administration of an injection with a needle.
What is discard into the sharps container?
This route involves being given in the dermal layer, anterior forearm, and scapula area/upper back (like for allergy tests).
What are intradermal injections?
This is the action of time the medication takes to produce a therapeutic effect after it has been administered.
What is the onset?
This angle is typically used for subcutaneous injections, depending on the amount of subcutaneous tissue and the needle length.
What is 45-90°?
This is a severe, life-threatening reaction in which the immune response produces dyspnea, hypotension, and tachycardia.
What is anaphylaxis?
This is the amount of medication checks performed by the nurse before the administration of a medication.
What is 3?
This route involves being given in the fatty tissue of the back of the arm, abdomen (away from umbilicus), and thigh.
What are subcutaneous injections?
This occurs when absorption is complete, the medication is distributed through the body, and the medication is at its highest concentration.
What is the peak?
This angle, used for intradermal injections, ensures that the medication is delivered into the dermis layer of the skin.
What is 5-15°?
This is an unintended and non-therapeutic effect, ranging from tolerable to harmful and sometimes irreversible damage or death.
What is an adverse drug reaction?
This is what is done by the nurse after receiving a verbal order.
What is read back?
This route involves being given in the deltoid, vastus lateralis, and ventrogluteal muscles.
What are intramuscular injections?
This is the maximum dosage that can be given in the deltoid.
What is lipodystrophy?
This is a life-threatening medication reaction that requires medical intervention to prevent death, permanent disability, congenital anomaly, or causes hospitalization.
What is an adverse drug event?
This is the 6 rights of medication administration.
What is patient, medication, dose (amount), route, time, and documentation?