General Principles
Administration of Drugs
Pain Management
Nursing Process
Patient and Family Teaching
100

These are the most carefully monitored of all drugs.

What is Controlled Substances

100

Right patient, drug, dose, route, time, and documentation

What is the five plus one "rights" of administration?

100
This type of pain occurs from an injury to the peripheral or central nervous sytem.

What is Neuropathic pain

100
Assessment
What is collecting of objective and subjective data?
100
The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with persons from cultures different from our own.
What is cultural competency?
200
Also called over-the-counter (OTC) drugs
What is Non-prescription Drugs
200

These can be standing, single, PRN, or STAT.

What is an Medication order?

200

Pain associated with anxiety, depression, or stress.

What is idiopathic pain.

200
Diagnosis
What is the nurse doing when she/he is identifying the patient's problem using NANDA?
200
The use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health
What is health communication?
300
Also called biotransformation, is the process by which the body changes a drug to a more or less active form that can be excreted.
What is metabolism?
300

This type of drug administration entails giving a drug by the intradermal, subcut, IM, or intravenous.

What is Parenteral administration

300

Pain that is the result of a stimulus (either chemical, thermal, or mechanical).

What is nociceptive pain

300
Implementation
What is the carrying out a plan of action?
300
Interactive process that promotes learning
What is teaching?
400
A term used to describe any unusual or abnormal reaction to a drug. It is any reaction that is different from the one normally expected from a specific drug and dose.
What is Idiosyncrasy?
400

The best placement of a transdermal patch for a client with dementia.

What is the back, thigh, chest, or upper arm?

400

Pain that originate in the organs of the abdomen or thorax.

What visceral pain

400
A decision-making process that involves determining the effectiveness of the interventions in meeting the expected outcomes.
What is evaluation?
400
Acquisition of new knowledge or skills; outcome of learning is change in behavior, thinking, or both
What is learning?
500

Occurs when drugs interact with each other and produce an effect that is greater than the sum of their separate actions. 1 + 1 = 3

What is Synergism?

500

The nurse explains which of the many properties of diflunisal to the patient with osteoarthritis.  Select all that apply

This drug is classified as a prostaglandin inhibitor

The adverse effects that need to be monitored include GI bleeding and liver function tests

When taking a salicylate you need to be careful with diuretics because diflunisal may increase the effectiveness of the diuretic

This drug may require monitoring of your kidney function so that adverse effects are identified

If you need to take this long term, we will generally have you take the lowest effective dose to minimize adverse effects

500

The nurse is reviewing an order for the pain medication tramadol (Ultram).  The nurse realizes the drug is classified as what type?

What is:

 opiate agonist, opiate partial agonist, opiate antagonist, prostaglandin inhibitor

500

Describes the steps for carrying out nursing activities or interventions that are specific and that will meet the expected outcomes.

What is Planning?

500

learn by seeing or watching, learn by listening, learn by moving, touching, and doing

What is learning styles of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic?

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