Drug Abuse
Improper use of drugs
What is Drug Abuse?
What is AM?
Two categories drugs are classified.
What is prescription and nonprescription?
Right patient, right medication, right dosage, right route, right time, right documentation, right patient edu., right to refuse, right assessment, right evaluation.
What is the Ten Rights of Medication Administration?
A patient's name, DOB, address and other personal information is written in this area of the prescription.
What is the Superscript?
Common illegally used drugs.
What is Cocaine, LSD, Heroin
The abbreviation for SOB.
What is Shortness of Breath?
Type of names for drugs.
Ointments, lotions, creams, capsules, pills, tablets, skin patches and etc. are all what?
What are drug forms?
What is an E-Prescription?
The condition that makes an individual require drugs.
What is drug dependency?
Abbreviation for UT.
What is Under Tongue?
A commonly used reference book for drugs.
What is the Physicians' Desk Reference?
The route to where medication is applied to the skin.
What is Topical Administration?
Physician only wants to use brand name without substitutions, where does the signature go?
What is DAW/Signature Lines?
Severe symptoms that occur when the patient stops using drugs.
What is Withdrawal?
Abbreviation for Prn.
The undesirable effects from drugs.
What are side effects?
Administered via vaginal or rectal route.
What is suppositories?
The Latin term for label.
Notifying a physician if drug abuse is suspected, calling other pharmacies for multiple medications prescription, the amount of refills patients request too early.
What is the signs of Drug Abuse?
Abbreviation for label as follows/directions
What is Sig?
When someone has a low threshold for pharmacologic drugs.
What is Drug Intolerance?
Effective against a large range of microorganisms, making treatment of specific illness easier.
What is broad-spectrum antibiotics?
The process of entering physician instructions, including medication orders, into patients' electronic health records.
What is (CPOE)?