Medications
Number of Patient Rights for medication administration.
What is 7?
Total number of pregnancies, regardless of length or outcome.
What is gravidity?
Surgical removal of the larynx or "voicebox"
What is laryngectomy?
Vertigo, sensori-neural hearing loss, and tinnitus are symptoms of this.
What is Meniere disease?
Gradual loss of nephrons with inability of the kidney to function.
What is chronic renal failure?
This is used to administer medications to an infant.
What is a dropper or syringe?
This is frequently monitored via urinalysis in pregnant women.
What is glucose?
When recording respirations, note these 3 characteristics.
What are rate, rhythm, and depth?
This is the medical term for "ringing in the ears"
What is tinnitus?
This makes kidney stones more likely to form.
What is alkaline urine?
Caution should be used in administering oral medications to an infant to prevent this.
What is aspiration?
This instrument allows the internal abdominal cavity and its contents to be viewed.
What is a laparascope?
The normal range of respiratory rates for adults.
What is 12-20.
Babies frequently do this when they have an earache.
What is pull on the ear.
When performing urinary catheterization, the CMA should wear these.
What are sterile gloves?
At what age do children receive their first Hepatitis B vaccine?
What is at birth?
True or False: Swelling of the breasts during hormonal cycles may be a warning sign for breast cancer.
What is false?
Difficult or labored breathing.
What is dyspnea?
This disease may have an impact on eyesight.
What is diabetes?
Besides removing waste from the blood, the urinary system also performs this function.
What is regulates fluid volume and pH balance?
Until the age of 2, most pediatric injections are given in this muscle.
What is the vastus lateralis?
This position is used for examination of the chest, abdomen, and breasts.
What is supine?
If you are unable to see the chest rise and fall to count respirations, you can do this.
What is listen with a stethoscope.
This is common in infants and children due to the horizontal position of the eustachian tube between the nasopharynx and middle ear.
What is otitis media?