The Nursing Process in drug therapy
The patient is continually monitored for therapeutic response, the occurance of adverse effects, and the occurence of drug-drug, drug-food,drug-alternative therapy, or drug-laboratory test interactions during this stage of the nursing process.
What is Evaluation?
This right would indicate you knew you could not cut or crush a medication.
What is right preparation?
An example of this is MSO4 is no longer used in charting/ordering morphine, and morphine is now spelled out.
What is an error-prone abbreviation?
The most widely used system of measure, which is based on the decimal system, so all units are determined by multiples of 10.
What is the Metric System?
This is what 5 ml is.
What is a teaspoon (tsp)?
Part of the "why" a nurse's attitude and support can be a critical part of drug therapy; the positive approach may be as beneficial as the drug itself.
What is placebo effect?
This right lets you know the medication has to be given IV.
What is right route?
An example of this is obtaining an apical pulse before administering a beta blocker.
What is necessary preadministration data.
The system which uses the minimum as the basic unit of liquid measurement and grain as the basic unit of solid measurement.
What is the Apothecary System?
3 teaspoons equal this.
What is one tablespoon or 15 mL?
The obtaining of patient's history and physical examination belongs in this part of the nursing process.
What is Assessment?
This right tells you the medication has to be given at bedtime.
What is right time?
This is filled out within the time frame the facility specifies, usually 24 hours, when a medication error is reported.
What is an incident report?
A older system that was popular when pharmacists routinely had to compound medications.
What is the Avoirdupois system?
This is what 2.2 pounds is in the metric system.
What is 1 kg?
This type of support is considered when initiating drug therapy and promoting patient compliance due to the high costs of healthcare in general and medications.
What is financial supports?
If it isn't written, it didn't happen.
What is right recording/documentation?
Checking the prescription when a single dose requires administration of multiple tablets could indicate this.
What is medication error?
The system which has made efforts in recent years to standardize measuring devices, wide variations have been noted.
What is the Household System?
The unit of measurement which shows Mr Hill's aged brain when he says it when he really should be saying milliliter.
What is a cc (cubic centimeter)?
So, if you end up working with an "old nurse" or provider that uses "cc" just know 1 cc = 1 mL.
The stage which involves taking and prioritizing information gathered and synthesizing in the nursing conclusions.
What is planning?
This right deals with making sure a particular medication is not exposed to light.
What is right storage.
Being knowledgeable about medications being administered is part of this when using the nursing process to prevent medication errors.
What is Assessment?
This is used to measure electrolytes.
What are milliequivalents (mEq)?
One grain is equal to this in mg.
What is 60 mg?