Med Rights and Responsibilities
Professional Rights
Medication Basics
Teaching
Last weeks class
100
Two forms of ID
What is the right way to identify the client?
100
When where and how much
What is to be documented on all meds?
100
Tables, Capsules, Liquids
What are PO medication routes?
100
Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic
What are the types of learning?
100
Pharmaceutic, Pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic
What are the three categories of drug action?
200
All TO/VO must have this documentation to verify that the order is the one the doctor gave.
What is Read back verify?
200
Apical pulse before digitalis administration or blood sugar before administering insulin.
What are examples of the nursing assessment before giving meds?
200
Intradermal, Subq, IM, IV
What are injections?
200
Time issues, knowledge deficit, no access to materials.
What are barriers to nurses giving medication education?
200
Ingredients that are used to make it a si certain size or shape.
What is an excipient?
300
28 days from the date it is opened.
What is amount of time that a multidose vial contents is good once it is opened?
300
a nurse's responsibility before a patient is sent home on medication
What is medication education?
300
Drops, Ointment, Sprays
What is topical administration?
300
This method insures that the client knows how to administer their insulin shot
What is return demonstration?
300
Carrying the drug across the cell membrane by engulfing it.
What is pinocytosis?
400
This is not sterile and shouldn't be punctured unless cleaned off with alcohol.
What is the stopper on all medication vials?
400
Often overlooked in documentation by nurses that occurs 1/2 hour after administration of IV and 1 hour after PO meds.
What is documenting the response to the medicine?
400
Albuterol is administered by this method
What is inhalation?
400
When the medication is first given.
What is the best time to start dismissal medication teaching?
400
This is term for the amount of the drug that goes into the client's system.
What is bioavailability?
500
Complete and clear drug orders
What is one of the six rights for nurses?
500
The right to refuse any medication.
What is a civil right that each patient has?
500
You must wear a glove when administering this not topical, non injectable, non PO med.
What is a suppository
500
5th - 6th grade level
What is the readability level that all written material should be created with?
500
The time it takes for 1/2 of the drug to be eliminated.
What is half life?
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