Nursing process and Drug Therapy
This step of the nursing process always comes first and involves collecting and analyzing patient data
What is assessment?
This term refers to the phenomenon where a drug is metabolized in the liver before it ever reaches systemic circulation
What is the first-pass effect?
The period of greatest danger of drug-induced developmental effects during pregnancy
What is the 1st trimester?
The study of how ceratin genetic traits affect drug response
What is pharmacogenomics?
Beta Blocker used for hypertension, angina, and improves survival rate after MI
metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol XL
These guidelines include the right drug, right dose, right time, right route, and right patient
What are the medication administration rights?
This term describes the range in which a drug concentration stays between the minimum effective level and the toxic level
What is the therapeutic range?
Type of medication is most likely to cause orthostatic hypotension and dizziness in an older adult
What are antihypertensive (blood pressure) medications?
Language differences, financial hardship, limited healthcare access, personal pride, and cultural beliefs
What are barriers to adequate health care?
This acetylcholinesterase inhibitor is prescribed to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease by increasing acetylcholine levels in the brain
What is donepezil (Aricept®)?
A nurse must contact the provider when a patient is NPO and ordered medications by mouth because the nurse may never assume this change
What is clarifying an order?
This pharmacokinetic process describes the movement of a medication from the bloodstream into body tissues and fluids
What is distribution?
Drug levels in this liquid is usually lower than maternal circulation
What is breastmilk?
Document needed from a patient before participating into a drug study?
What is an informed consent?
This life-saving medication stimulates alpha and beta adrenergic receptors and is the first-line drug used in anaphylaxis to improve blood pressure, heart function, and breathing
What is epinephrine?
This legal document is the first place a nurse checks to see if a medication was given
What is the medication administreatio record?
This type of drug binds to a receptor and produces a full physiologic response
What is an agonist?
Period in pregnancy which drug transfer to fetus is most likely
What is the 3rd trimester?
State Law that cover the scope of nursing practice, standards of care, and safe nursing practices
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This beta-3 adrenergic agonist relaxes the detrusor muscle of the bladder to treat overactive bladder symptoms like urgency and frequency
What is mirabegron (Myrbetriq®)?
This type of report is completed after a medication error but must never be documented in the patient’s medical record
What is an incident report?
If a patient takes 100 mg of a drug with an 8-hour half-life, this amount remains in the body after 16 hours
What is 25 mg?
This major organ is responsible for metabolizing most medications, often reducing their activity through enzymatic breakdown before they are eliminated from the body
What is the liver?
Ethical principle for the right of a patient to make informed decisions, voluntary decisions about their own medical care
What is autonomy?
Increases acetylcholine at neuromuscular junction resulting in improved muscle strength for pts with Myasthenia Gravis
pyridostigmine (Mestinon®)