Nursing Responsibilities
This process includes assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
What is the nursing process?
This term describes the study of drugs and their effects on the body.
What is pharmacology?
This is the movement of drugs through the body.
What is pharmacokinetics?
This route of administration provides the fastest medication effect.
What is intravenous (IV)?
These medications can be purchased without a prescription.
What are over-the-counter (OTC) drugs?
The nurse must check the right patient, drug, dose, route, time, reason, documentation, response and right to refuse.
What are the Nine Rights of Medication Administration?
This is the desired or intended effect of a medication.
What is the therapeutic effect?
This process describes a drug entering the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
A medication error should be reported immediately to this person.
Who is the supervising nurse or provider?
Even though OTC drugs are available without prescription, nurses must still assess for this risk.
What are drug interactions?
This source is considered the most reliable reference for medication information in clinical practice.
What is the drug handbook?
This type of medication name is the official name of the drug (example: acetaminophen).
What is the generic name?
This organ is the primary site of drug metabolism.
What is the liver?
Patients taking multiple medications are at risk for this problem.
What are drug interactions?
This patient population should be especially cautious when using OTC medications.
Who are older adults?
The nurse should assess for this before administering a medication to prevent reactions.
What are allergies?
This type of effect is unintended but often predictable.
What is a side effect?
This organ system is primarily responsible for drug excretion.
What are the kidneys (urinary system)?
This occurs when the immune system reacts to a drug.
What is an allergic reaction?
This common OTC medication is used for pain and fever.
What is acetaminophen?
Documentation after medication administration is important for this legal reason.
What is providing a legal record of care?
This severe harmful reaction occurs when a drug level becomes too high in the body.
What is drug toxicity?
These four processes make up pharmacokinetics.
What are absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME)?
This term refers to the range between the minimum effective dose and the toxic dose.
What is the therapeutic range?
This problem can occur if patients take too many OTC medications containing the same ingredient.
What is drug overdose or toxicity?