What does that mean?
Applied to the skin or surface of the body
What is topical?
Maximum daily dose of Tylenol
What is 4,000mg
Oral, sublingual, buccal, topical, eye, ear, nose, vaginal, rectal, and enteral.
What is 90 degrees?
Angle to administer an IM injection
What is 90 degrees?
Review process occurs after a medication error has occurred with the goal of determining why it occurred so that future errors can be prevented?
What is root cause analysis?
Preferred unit of measurement for patient weight
What is kilograms?
Vastus Lateralis
What is the preferred IM injection site for infants?
Poorly designed work spaces, inefficient workflow, distractions and interruptions
Ongoing process with the goal of error prevention, maintaining a culture of safety, and improving quality.
What is continuous quality improvement?
A type of lettering used that uses capital letters to distinguish medications that look and sound alike?
What is tall man lettering?
H.S.
What is give at hour of sleep or bedtime?
Order is 20mg/kg/day for a patient weighing 75 kg.
What is 1500mg/day?
Patient, Medication, Route, Dose, Time, and Indication
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
Category of drugs with high risk of causing serious harm if given in error
What are high alert medications?
Number of patient identifiers used with medication administration
What is two?
When mixing insulins in a syringe, this insulin is drawn up first.
What is regular insulin?
An injury resulting from the use of a medication.
What is an adverse event?
Type of medication that should not be crushed
What is enteric coated?
Lab value is checked prior to dispensing Coumadin (warfarin)
What is international normalized ratio or INR?
An order for 20mg/kg/day for a patient that weighs 75 kg.
What is 1500 mg?
Patients with penicillin allergy are also at risk for allergy to this class of medication.
What are cephalosporins?