Medications
This/these route(s) of medications undergo the first pass effect
What is by mouth (PO)?
This is what you would tell a patient taking doxycycline.
What is wear sun protection?
Hemolysis can be described as:
What is the destruction of the red blood cells?
This is the cause of GERD
What is weak or incompetant lower esophageal sphincter
This the most important side effect to montior for when administering opioids (ex: hydromorphone)
What is respiratory depression
Vancomycin (Vancocin) needs to have a trough level drawn during this time
What is before the 4th dose?
This is the patient education for cholestyramine (Questran)
What is take 2 hours before or 4 hours after other meds including supplements?
This is how you diagnose Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
What is a lymph node biopsy?
These are signs of respiratory distress in a child
What are shallow, fast respirations, grunting during expiration, nasal flaring, and inspiratory retractions
This is how you would diagnose meningitis
What is a lumbar puncture
What is PT/INR?
The patient will be told this after being sent home with salmeterol (Severent Diskus).
What is this is not for acute attacks?
The following all fall into this category: pregnancy, use of oral contraceptives, postsurgical state, immobility, congestive heart
failure, malignant diseases, genetic disorders (primary)
What is a hypercoaguable state?
This is the pathophysiology of ectopic pregnancy
What is when a fertilized ovum implants outside the uterine cavity, often the fallopian tube
Can cause lower abdominal pain, spotting, syncope, referred shoulder pain, amenorrhea
This is the cause of diabetic retinopathy
What is hyperglyemia that causes damage to blood vessels that nourish the retina
This insulin can cause overnight hypoglycemia because of its peak time of 4-12 hours.
What is isophane (NPH)
This is what you will teach the patient when they are taking adalimumab (Humira).
What are signs and symptoms of infection?
Bonus 100 points if you can name at least four signs of infection.
These are the characteristics, depth, and pain level associated with a full thickness burn
These are the clinical manifestations of a UTI
What are urinary frequency, lower abdominal/back discomfort, burning and pain with urination (dysuria), cloudy and foul-smelling urine, change in mental status (older adults), unexplained fever
This is a unique nursing implication of epinephrine (Adrenalin)
What is checking POC blood glucose levels q30 mins
(You would administer regular insulin IV if needed)
These are the side effects of bumetanide (Bumex).
What is hypokalemia, dehydration, hypotension, ototoxicity?
When the patient asks if there is anything they need to know about using ethinyl estradiol/etonogestrel (NuvaRing) you will tell them this.
What is you may experience vaginal discomfort, nausea, vaginal spotting, and thrombolitic events. Points will be given if: "the ring will be inserted for 3 weeks then removed for 4th week for 7 days.
These are 5 causes of tinnitus
What is impacted serum, noise-induced hearing loss, presbycusis, hypertension, atherosclerosis, head injury, cochlear or labryinthine infection
Will also accept medications that have a side effect of tinnitus
These are the differences between the s/s of left-sided versus right-sided heart failure
What is....
R-sided: congestion of peripheral tissues. This causes edema and ascites, GI tract congestion (anorexia, wt loss), liver congestion
L-sided: decreased cardiac output and pulmonary congestion. This causes pulmonary edema, issues with gas exchange, cyanosis, hypoxemia, cough with frothy sputum
These antihypertensives lower heart rate
What are...
- beta blockers (ex: metoprolol)
- NONselecive calcium channel blockers (diltiazem and verapamil)
- adrenergic blockers (carvedilol and labetalol)