Pharmacokinetics & Routes of Administration
This refers to how medications travel through the body.
What is Pharmacokinetics?
The official or nonproprietary name the United States Adopted Names Council gives a medication.
What is Generic Name?
Ratio and proportion, formula (desired over have), and dimensional analysis.
What are methods for dosage calculation?
The two types of IV access.
What is peripheral or central venous access?
Undesired, inadvertent, and unexpected severe responses to the medication that can occur at both therapeutic and higher‑than‑therapeutic doses.
What is Adverse Effects?
The function of these two organs affects a medication half-life.
What is the liver and kidney?
The Nurses compile a list of each client’s current medications, and they compare the list with new medication prescriptions and reconcile it with the provider to resolve any discrepancies.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
A nurse is preparing to administer phenytoin 0.2 g PO every 8 hr. The amount available is phenytoin 100 mg/capsule. How many capsules should the nurse administer per dose? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number.)
What is 2 capsules?
Findings of this complication include pallor, local swelling at the site, decreased skin temperature around the site, damp dressing, and slowed infusion.
What is Infiltration?
Effects that are a result of muscarinic receptor blockade; most are seen in the eyes, smooth muscle, exocrine glands, and the heart.
What is Anticholinergic Effects?
This determines how soon the medication will take effect.
What is the rate of medication absorption?
This type of prescription is for emergencies only and cannot be accepted by student nurses.
What is a verbal prescription?
A nurse is preparing to administer amoxicillin 0.25 g PO every 8 hr. The amount available is amoxicillin oral suspension 250 mg/5 mL. How many mL should the nurse administer per dose? (Round the answer to the nearest tenth.)
What is 5mL PO every 8hr?
Priority action for extravasation.
What is stop the infusion?
Adverse effects have been demonstrated on human fetuses based on data from investigational or marketing experience, but use of the medication during pregnancy can be warranted based on the potential benefits.
What Pregnancy Category Risk D?
The position for rectal suppositories.
What is left lateral or Sims' position?
Inform clients about the medication: its purpose, what to expect, how to take it, and what to report
What is right client education?
A nurse is preparing to administer dextrose 5% in water (D5W) 500 mL IV to infuse over 4 hr. The nurse should set the IV infusion pump to deliver how many mL/hr? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number.)
Anatomical landmarks should be used to find veins for this type of client.
What is obese clients?
Medication-Food Interactions such as consuming foods with tyramine while taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) can lead to this?
This site is no longer recommended for intramuscular injections due to its close proximity to the static nerve.
What is dorsogluteal?
List of medications that, if a nurse administers them in error, have a high risk for resulting in significant harm to clients
What is High-Alert Medication List?
A nurse is preparing to administer lactated Ringer’s (LR) 1,500 mL IV to infuse over 10 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 15 gtt/mL. The nurse should adjust the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number.)
What is 38 gtt/min?
IV medication should never be administered through tubing infusing these products.
What is blood, blood product, and parenteral nutrition solutions?
Abnormal body movements that can include involuntary fine‑motor tremors, rigidity, uncontrollable restlessness, and acute dystonia, and are more often associated with medications affecting the CNS (those used to treat mental health disorders).
What is Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPSs)?