Math Review
This is how much fluid a patient drank if he drank 1/3 cup of water at breakfast and 1/4 cup at lunch.
What is 7/12 cup?
This is how many tablets you will give of 325 mg acetaminophen tablets if the ordered dose is 650 mg.
What is 2 tablets?
What are Schedule II?
The cup should be held at ____ level when measuring liquid drugs to avoid errors.
What is eye?
25-27 G, 1/2-1 inch long needles are used for this type of injections.
What is subcutaneous?
This is how much medication remains in a 2.5 mL vial after 1.75 mL is withdrawn for a dose.
What is 0.75 mL?
This is how many mL of ibuprofen you will give if the order is for 300 mg and the available ibuprofen is 100mg/5mL.
What is 15 mL?
These are the 4 types of drug orders.
What are standing, emergency or stat, single, and PRN drug orders?
Enteral drugs can be given by 1 of these 3 routes (name all 3 routes).
What are the oral (PO), nasogastric (NG) or PEG, or rectal routes?
When administering intradermal injections the needle should be inserted at this angle.
What is 10-15 degrees?
This is the new dose after the original dose of 150 mg is reduced by 20% for renal impairment.
What is 120 mg?
This is how many mL you will give a 18kg child of 250mg/mL ceftriaxone if the ordered dose is 50mg/kg.
What is 3.6 mL?
This is the most important action to perform after giving a patient a drug with a black box warning.
What is observe the patient closely for an adverse reaction?
This technique should be followed for oral drugs to avoid contamination.
What is aseptic technique?
This IM injection site is easily accessible and useful for vaccinations but only small amounts can be injected here.
What is the deltoid?
This is the number of doses that can be drawn from a syringe holding 1/2 mL of medication if each dose is 1/8 mL.
What is 4 doses?
This is how many mL you will draw up of a 50mg/1mL medication if the ordered dose is 0.075 g.
What is 1.5 mL?
These are the 8 items that must be included in a legal prescription order.
What are patient's full name, date, drug name, route of administration, dose, frequency, duration, and prescriber signature?
What is 30 minutes?
This is the anatomical landmark used when giving IM injections in the deltoid muscle.
What is the acromion process?
This is the dose a patient will receive when they get 0.6 of their usual 2.5 mg dose due to bradycardia.
What is 1.5 mg?
This is the infusion rate in mL/hr for a 70kg patient of 400mg/250mL dopamine at an ordered rate of 7mcg/kg/min.
What is 18.4 mL/hr?
These are the 9 rights of medication administration.
What are right patient, drug, dose, route, time, reason, documentation, response, refuse?
This is the first step the nurse should perform before administering any medication via the NG tube route.
What is check placement?
What is the ventrogluteal site?