CH 46: Pharmacokinetics and Routes of Administration
The transmission of medications from the location of administration to the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
Each medication has only one of this kind of nomenclature.
What is generic name?
Rounding rule for dosages greater than 1.0
What is round to the nearest tenth?
Correct size catheter for clients who need rapid fluid volume or have sustained significant trauma.
What is 16g?
Adverse effect that results from muscarinic receptor blockade and affects the eyes, smooth muscle tone, exocrine glands, and heart.
What is Anticholinergic effects?
The time for a medication in the body to drop by 50%
What is half-life?
Undesirable and potentially dangerous responses to a medication.
Rounding rule for dosages less than 1.0
What is round to the nearest hundredth?
Abnormal body movements: tremors, rigidity, restlessness, acute dystonia (spastic movements of back, neck, tongue and face), drooling, agitation, and shuffling gait that can take a few hours or months to develop.
What are Extrapyramidal Symptoms?
The route of administration that involves tablets, capsules, liquids, suspensions, elixirs, and lozenges.
What is Oral or Enteral?
A prescription for only one administration but must be administered up to 90 minutes from when the nurse received the prescription.
1 oz equals this many mL.
What is 30 mL?
What is using scissors to cut/clip?
This type of analgesic can cause GI distress and peptic ulcers.
What are NSAIDs?
What is First-Pass effect?
What is the Joint Commission?
1kg equals this many pounds.
What is 2.2 lbs?
You should never administer IV medications through tubing that is infusing these.
What are blood products, blood, and parenteral nutrition?
Acetaminophen is most toxic to this organ.
What is the Liver?
A form of parenteral administration that requires a 3/8 to 5/8 inch, 25-31 gauge needle and injects no more than 1.5 mL of solution.
What is Subcutaneous?
The relation of the scheduling, in terms of ascending or descending schedules, of controlled substances compared to their potential for misuse and dependence.
What is ascending schedule indicates decreased potential for misuse and dependence?
A nurse is preparing to administer cefixime 8mg/kg/day PO to divide equally every 12 hours to a toddler who weighs 22lbs. Available is cefixime suspension 100mg/5mL. How many mL should the nurse administer per dose? (Round to nearest whole number. Use leading zero if it applies. Do not use a trailing zero.)
What is 2 mL?
Complication resulting in Edema, throbbing, burning, pain at site, increased skin temp, erythema, a red line up the arm with palpable band at the vein site and a slowed rate of infusion.
What is phlebitis?
Two of the most common medications that cause angioedema.