Medication Route
Avoid this route if a client is nauseated, has a nasogastric tube, or is NPO.
What is orally?
By Mouth
What is PO?
True or False?
Buccal or sublingual medication can be given as directed to clients with NG (enteral tube).
What is TRUE?
The medication form that can be administered rectally and vaginally.
What is a suppository?
Place drops, ointments, and intraocular disks in this region of the eye.
What is the conjunctival sac?
SL
What is sublingual?
True or False?
Policies for flushing and unblocking NG tubes can vary from facility to facility.
What is TRUE?
The reason why suppository medication should be refrigerated.
What is to keep them from melting?
To insure nasal drops reach the affected sinus, name the bed position the client should be placed in.
What is supine?
Topical
What is top. ?
True or False?
Enteric-coated tablets can be crushed to administer to a patient with a NG tube.
What is FALSE?
The term used for client's giving themselves the medication.
What is self-administer?
A device that delivers inhaled medication.
What is a MDI (metered-dose inhaler) or small-volume nebulizer?
XR
What is extended release?
The bed position the NG tube client should be in before administering medications.
What is Fowlers position (at least 30 degrees)?
The method for keeping the suppository in place for clients with loss of sphincter control.
Older adults/childern
What is holding the buttocks together for 5 minutes or until the medication dissolves?
The best route for local delivery?
What is topical/transdermal?
Ointment
What is ung?
This is the method to prepare & deliver liquid or soft gelatin capsules to clients with NG tubes.
Preparation: Puncture & Squeeze
Delivery: Dilute with water (or facility-approved fluid)
After receiving a suppository the client should wait how long in Sims' position before moving?
What is 5 minutes?