Taking the Right Route
This a medication delivery route through the skin; also called transdermal.
What is transcutaneous?
Therapeutic Uses for a specific medication.
What are medication indications?
The effect that a medication is expected to have on the body.
What is the intended effect?
The brand name from manufacturer.
What is the Trade Name?
The study of the properties and effects of medications.
This is a medication route by mouth.
What is the oral medication administration route?
Situations in which a medication should not be given because it would not help or may actually harm a patient.
What are medication contraindications?
This is the way in which a medication produces the intended response.
What is the mechanism of action?
This is the name assigned by USP.
What is the Official Name?
This is the measure of acidity and alkalinity of a solution.
What is pH?
This is an injection into a muscle.
What is the intramuscular route?
This is considered a contraindication in the administration of oral glucose.
What is an altered mental status?
This is a medication action that can be harmful to the patient.
What are untoward/adverse effects?
This is the precise description of medication’s chemical composition and molecular structure.
What is the Chemical Name?
This is the action of two substances such as drugs, in which the total effects are greater that the sum of the independent effects of the two substances.
What is synergism?
This is a medication route in which the medication is placed between the cheek and gum, then is absorbed into the bloodstream
What is the buccal route?
This is a contraindication of Narcan administration.
What is known hypersensitivity?
This is a direct interaction between to drugs.
What is interference?
What is the Generic Name?
These are chemical agents used in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
What are pharmaceutical drugs?
This is an injection into the tissue between the skin and muscle.
What is the subcutaneous route?
These are the contraindications for Albuterol Sulfate administration.
What are hypersensitivity and uncontrolled cardiac dysrhythmias?
These include the Right patient, Right medication and indication, Right dose, Right route, Right time, Right patient education, Right to refuse, Right response and evaluation, Right documentation.
What are the rights of medications administration?
This is the generic name of Zofran?
What is ondansetron?
This describes a disease or condition that does not respond to treatment.
What is a refractory response?