Unit 1
What is the chemical composition of the active ingredient is the same?
The scope of practice for a nurse and minimum practice standards are specified by these.
What are the Wisconsin Board of Nursing Administrative Code and Nurse Practice Acts?
This is the 5th vital sign.
What is pain?
This group of compounds act mainly in the CNS to relieve pain associated with skeletal muscle spasm.
What are muscle relaxants?
This non-selective endogenous vasoactive catecholamine has different effects on the body depending on the dose.
What is epinephrine?
This area of pharmacology is associated with dissolution, absorption rate, onset of action, and routes of administration.
What is pharmaceutics?
These are the 5 steps of the nursing process.
What are assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation?
What is the first step in treating a client who is experiencing pain.
What is assessment of the pain level and characteristics?
These medications are classified by chemical structure, site of action, or therapeutic use.
What are stimulant drugs?
Contraindications to nasal decongestants.
What are narrow angle glaucoma, uncontrolled cardiovascular disease, hypertension, Diabetes, and hyperthyroidism?
Physiologic changes associated with aging that can affect medications in the body include these body systems.
What are renal, circulatory, GI tract, and liver?
These must be used consistently to prevent medication administration errors.
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
These are possible opioid medication side effects/adverse reactions.
What are constipation, drowsiness, respiratory depression, urinary retention, and hypotension?
This class of medications are used to treat seizures and include Phenytoin and Gabapentin.
What are antiepileptics or anticonvulsants?
This nonselective Beta Blocker treats heart failure, hypertension & angina.
What is Labetalol?
This is the term for medications that can cause significant fetal harm or death.
What is teratogenic?
This is the reason the medication is being administered.
What is the indication?
This type of therapy utilizes a combination of opioid and non-opioid medication.
What is adjuvant therapy?
These medications are aimed at increasing the levels of dopamine or antagonizing the affects of acetylcholine (blocking or lowering) but are not curative.
What are anti-Parkinson medications?
Adrenergic Antagonists BLOCK stimulation of this.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
These are expected to occur with medication administration and are generally mild.
What are side effects?
What does LASA stand for?
What are look alike sound alike medications?
This is the process of assessing and increasing in potency of pain medication strategies.
What is the 3 step analgesic ladder?
This MAO-B inhibitor may be administered with Carbidopa-Levodopa to increase its effectiveness.
What is Selegiline?
This class of medications stimulate the dilator muscle to contract.
What are ophthalmic medications?