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When a pt follows the plan of care.
What is compliance?
Patients seeking health information may exhibit these behaviors.
What is being uninformed, relying on health care provider or pharmacist or questioning?
Pain killers (narcotics), some sedatives and tranquilizers are categorized as...
What are controlled substances?
If a med error occurs, the first step should be...
What is check the patient? Does the error pose a risk to the patient?
Prescribers include...
What are physicians, nurse practitioners and dentists?
When a pt does not adhere to the plan of care.
What is noncompliance?
Important items to include in pt teaching process include:
What is evaluate pts specific needs to learn, willingness to learn, what needs to be taught, selection of teaching method, evaluating how well the material has been learned, and using a variety of teaching methods?
These drugs may be purchased by patients without a prescription.
What is over the counter?
To prevent med errors, do this!
What is follow facility policy and follow the 9 rights?
A prescription must include...
What is the patients full name, date, name of drug, route of administration, dose, frequency, duration and prescriber signature?
When the nurse, patient, family, health care provider, and pharmacist work together to implement treatment plan.
What is concordance?
In addition to verbal education, written information can include...
What is special labels on prescription bottles, materials inserted into drug package, materials or booklets accompanying the medication?
Drugs that require a written order, controlled by a prescriber.
What are prescription or legend drugs?
When a med error occurs, notify...
Who is the provider and your immediate supervisor?
Considerations with a verbal or telephone order include...
What is an RN must take the order, the order must be read back to the prescriber for verification, the prescriber must co sign the order within 24 hours?
Two reasons the patient may have difficulty meeting treatment goals.
What is they don’t understand or they understand but fail to do it because they don’t believe plan should be carried out or don’t have money, time, or resources to do it.
Other resources for pt learning can be in these mediums.
What is audiovisual and internet?
Controlled drugs are divided into 5 ————- or classes each or which requires a different level of control, record keeping and regulation.
What is schedules?
To prevent needle stick injuries never do this!
What is recap?
The joint commission discourages use of these to avoid confusion.
What is certain abbreviations?
The ability to understand and use information that is important in keeping one healthy.
What is health literacy?
When you do not see the desired changes or results such as blood pressure coming down or blood sugar stabilized.
What is a failure somewhere in the pt education process?
The details of who may give medications are set by each state and can be found in their ...
What is nurse practice act?
Needless systems and built in safety features imposed by OSHA are called...
What are engineering controls?
Name four types of medication orders.
What is standing, stat, single and prn?