Fluid & Electrolytes
Nursing Process & Lifespan Considerations
Pharmacologic Principles
Cultural, Legal & Ethical Considerations
Medication Errors
Patient Education
Diuretics
100

The lab ranges for potassium & sodium.

What are potassium 3.5-5.0 mEq/L & sodium 135-145 mEq/L?

100

Framework/phases of the nursing process (steps, in order)

What are assess, analyze, identify (human needs statement), implement & evaluate?

100

The study of the biochemical and physiologic interactions of drugs at their sites of activity. It examines the effect of the drug on the body.

What is pharmacodynamics?

100

The study of how certain genetic traits affect drug response.

What is pharmacogenomics?

100

A common cause of adverse health care outcomes and can range from having no significant effect to directly causing patient disability or death.

What is a medication error?

100

This process begins on the patient's admission to the health care setting.

What is teaching-learning?

100
These are the five (5) classifications of diuretics.

What are osmotic, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, loop, potassium-sparing & thiazide diuretics?

200

At least three signs/symptoms of hypernatremia.

What are fever, restlessness, fluid overload, edema, dry mouth, flushed skin, altered mental status (LOC), decreased urinary output, thirst, HTN, decreased energy?

200

Nine rights of medication administration.

What are drug, dose, route, time, patient, documentation, refusal, reason, response?

200

Represents the drug absorption into, distribution and metabolism within, and excretion from the body

What is pharmacokinetics?

200

The duty to tell the truth; related nursing actions include telling the truth with regard to placebos, investigational new drugs, and informed consent.

What is veracity?

200

Any undesirable occurrence related to administration of or failure to administer a prescribed medication.

What is adverse drug event?

200
This learning domain is used when teaching a patient how to measure the pulse before taking a beta blocker.

What is psychomotor domain?

200

The name of a diuretic you would administer to a patient whose potassium is 6.2 mEq/L.

What is furosemide or bumetanide?

300

At least three signs/symptoms of hyperkalemia.

What are muscle weakness, cardiac arrythmia (EKG changes), muscle cramps/weakness, respiratory distress, decreased contractility of heart, decreased urine output?

300

The five (5) pregnancy categories of drugs.

What are A, B, C, D & X?

300

The condition of producing adverse bodily effects because of poisonous qualities.

What is toxicity

300

The duty to do no harm to a patient; related nursing actions include avoiding doing any deliberate harm while rendering nursing care.

What is nonmaleficence?

300

An immunologic reaction resulting from an unusual sensitivity of a patient to a certain medication; a type of adverse drug event and a subtype of adverse drug reactions.

What is an allergic reaction?

300

Conduct that expresses feelings, needs, beliefs, values, and opinions; the feeling domain

What is affective domain?

300

This drug can be used in the treatment of patients in the early oliguric phase of acute renal failure or in patients with increased intracranial pressure.

What is mannitol?

400

Priority indication to administer whole blood products.

What is extreme (over 25%) loss of blood volume? Whole blood also contains plasma and plasma proteins, the chief osmotic component, which help draw fluid back into blood vessels from surrounding tissues

400

The method of calculating pediatric medication dosages to ensure accuracy.

What is weight based dosing?

400

In pharmacokinetics, the time required for half of an administered dose of drug to be eliminated by the body, or the time it takes for the blood level of a drug to be reduced by 50%.

What is half-life?

400

This field is an expanding body of knowledge for understanding the specific impact of cultural factors on patient drug response.

What is ethnopharmacology?

400

Unexpected, unintended, or excessive responses to medications given at therapeutic dosages (as opposed to overdose); one type of adverse drug event.

What is an adverse drug reaction?

400

The most important factor a nurse should assess to ensure the patient understands health information and instructions.

What is the current knowledge/literacy of the patient's health?

400

This classification of diuretic has an adverse effect of reducing potassium and sodium levels and elevating levels of calcium, lipids, glucose, and uric acid.

What is thiazide diuretics?

500

Antidote for potassium toxicity

What is polystyrene sulfonate (kayexalate) or hemodialysis?

500

Age-related changes in metabolism, such as decreased liver and kidney function, can increase the risk of this in older adults when administering medications.

What is drug toxicity?

500

The time required for a drug to reach its maximum therapeutic response in the body.

What is peak?

500

Specific to each state this document further defines/identifies (1) the scope of nursing practice, (2) expanded nursing roles, (3) educational requirements for nurses, (4) standards of care, (5) minimally safe nursing practice, and (6) differences between nursing and medical practice.

What is a Nurse practice act.

500

This accreditation body for many hospitals initiated an awareness campaign encourages patients to take a more active role in their health care by "speaking up" & asking questions.

What is the joint commission?

500

Barriers to learning, emotional status, financial status/issues/concerns, health beliefs, health literacy & cognitive abilities.

What are necessary topics included in the assessment of learning needs related to drug therapy?

500

The diuretic of choice for acute exacerbation of heart failure & pulmonary edema

What is furosemide?