Delegation
A nurse watches her patients closely for this reason.
To monitor the health status and care of a patient.
This is an act that violates a criminal law.
What is a crime?
This type of date requires the use of the five senses.
What is objective data?
A drugs common name is also called this.
What is the generic name?
Taking medication for your own use is called this.
What is drug diversion?
A nurse may delegate this task to you as a medication assistant certified.
What is delegate giving certain drugs?
This is negligence by a professional person.
What is malpractice?
This is a written guide regarding the care of a patient.
What is a careplan?
This is an unintended reaction to any medication given.
What is a side effect?
You must complete these many checks when administering medications.
What are three checks?
A medication assistant cannot assess a persons need for this type of medication.
What is a pain/prn medication?
This can be any identifying information about a persons health care.
What is protected health information?
This step of the nursing process measures if goals were met in the careplan.
What is evaluation?
This is also called urticaria. It is usually seen as irregular shaped patches on the skin that are raised and cause severe itching.
What are hives?
BCMA is the acronym for this.
What is Bar Code Medication Administration?
A nurse needs to know this in order to delegate a task to you.
What is your knowledge and skills?
This entity determines the safety of drugs before marketing.
What is the FDA?
To get an accurate weight you must do this.
Weigh at the same time of day. Balance the scale to zero. Remove footwear. Have the person urinate before weighing.
This is the process in which the body inactivates a drug.
What is metabolism?
PRN medications are given at this frequency.
What is ' as needed'?
This means to be responsible for your actions and the actions of others who perform a delegated task.
What is accountable?
There are these many classifications of controlled substances.
What are five classifications?
A normal blood pressure reading is less than these numbers.
What is 120/80?
Drug resources should be ________ and __________.
What is accurate and current?
List one type of medication error.
What is:
wrong drug
wrong time
wrong route
wrong person
wrong documentation
missed medication