Chapters 1 & 2
What part of the nursing process would evaluating the response to a medication fall under?
Evaluation
Taking several different medications, including over the counter and herbal products.
Polypharmacy
Preventable adverse drug event
medication error
Best way to assess a patients fluid volume status
I & O, daily weights
Commonly causes gastrointestinal effects
NSAIDS
This part of the nursing process must be written specific and measurable.
Outcome or Goal
Common method of calculating pediatric medication dosage.
mg/kg
Repeat the order back to the physician:
any time taking a verbal or phone order
Potassium sparing diuretic
Aldactone
81 to 325 mg per day
Aspirin, helps with preventing clot formation
Medications given under the tongue are being given?
Sublingually
Drugs used only with approved protocals
Schedule C1 drugs
Learning how to perform a procedure
psychomotor domain
chills, rash, difficulty breathing
Transfusion reaction
Therapeutic effects of NSAIDS
Decrease inflammation
Decrease pain
Decrease Fever
Drugs given parenterally, as opposed to orally, are not affected by what?
The first pass effect
Failure of the nurse to give care or act in a reasonable manner.
negligence
Patient does not speak English
Use a professional Translator
muscle weakness, hypotension, lethargy, mental confusion, nausea
Hypokalemia
Don't give NSAIDS to patients with these conditions
Vitamin K deficiency,
Ulcerative Disease
A drugs concentration is sufficient to elicit a therapeutic response
duration of action
self-determination, acting on one's own
Autonomy
Culture, Education, Readiness, Beliefs
Assessing learning needs
First line of treatment for hypertension
Thiazide diuretics
Acute, life threatening condition involving neurologic deficits, can lead to coma
Reyes Syndrome