Week 1
Which client is most at risk for a cumulative drug effect?
a client with liver damage
What should the nurse recommend in order to minimize the clients' risk for COPD?
Avoid smoking
The antidote for Heparin is---and the antidote for warfarin is---
Protamine sulfate and Vitamin K
True or false Midazolam can cause respiratory depression and CNS suppression
True
Patient should be cautioned to avoid which when taking skeletal muscle relaxants?
Alcohol
Physiological process of absorption, distribution, and elimination
pharmacokinetics
There are---lobes in the left lung and---in the right lung.
2 and 3
What beverage would be important for the nurse to stress that the client avoid when taking a calcium channel blocker? Double points if you can name one
Grapefruit juice
Serum level for Phenytoin
10-20
Name 2 safest issues with clients taking Cyclobenzaprine. One inpatient and the other outpatient.
Do not drive or operate heavy machinery. At risk for falls
Fastest route of administration
IV
Which preventive measure is most important to teach to protect against the common cold? The most basic thing that you can teach.
Frequent handwashing
How should a patient take sublingual nitroglycerin?
Every 5 minutes times 3
Serotonin abnormalities are thought to be involved in:
Mood disorders
Signs and symptoms of what would necessitate discontinuation of dantrolene therapy. Hint: think drug metabolism.Double if you can name an actual disorder.
Hepatic damage, liver damage. Hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver.
Used for allergic reactions but be careful; it may make you drowsy.
diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
Theophylline serum level
10 and 20
What common adverse effect would the nurse mention in the teaching for a patient taking an ACE inhibitor? Double points if you can name an allergic reaction that would be considered emergency for a client taking an ACE inhibitor.
dry cough
angioedema
Abruptly stopping Benzodiazepines can cause
Withdrawal
Fentanyl antidote
Narcan/naloxone
Used for allergic reactions, but be careful; it can give you palpitations.
Epinephrine
A doctor has prescribed 400 mg of benzonatate daily to a patient with a cough. The on-hand availability of benzonatate is a 100 mg softgel capsule. How many capsules will the nurse have to administer to the client daily?
4 capsules
What adverse reaction does the nurse anticipate if a client takes nitroglycerin with sildenafil?
Hypotension. They could die
The nurse is writing a plan of care for a client receiving an alpha-specific adrenergic agonist. What is the priority component of the client’s plan of care?
monitoring blood pressure and heart rate frequently
Medication used for treating a malignant hyperthermia crisis.
Dantrolene