Patient Teaching/Drug Administration
These are the 5 rights of medication administration.
What is right drug, right patient, right dose, right route, right time?
This medication belongs to the class of Aminoglycosides and is used to treat several gram-negative infections.
This type of IV fluid, such as 5% Dextrose in Water, is known to have a lower concentration of solutes than blood.
What is a hypotonic fluid?
Beta blockers ending in “-lol,” like Metoprolol, should not be administered if a patient’s heart rate falls below this number.
What is 60 beats per minute?
When mixing regular insulin with NPH insulin in the same syringe, this insulin should be drawn up first.
What is regular insulin?
These are the 3 most common fatal medication errors.
What is giving an overdose, giving wrong drug, using wrong route?
This is the time patients should be instructed to take diuretics and the reasoning for so.
What is in the morning to prevent nocturia?
These are the 2 fluids that are normally used for volume replacement and are considered this type.
What is 0.9% NaCl and Lactated Ringers and isotonic fluids?
This vasodilator is given intravenously for hypertensive emergencies and may cause these 2 major side effects.
What is Hydralazine and reflex tachycardia/dizziness?
This hormone is essential for managing blood glucose levels in patients with Type 1 diabetes and this is the normal range of blood glucose concentration.
What is Insulin and normal range of 70-100?
This route of administration achieves 100% bioavailability and does so because of this factor.
What is intravenously and because they can reach systemic circulation directly without absorption.
This main condition occurs as a side effect while on diuretics and involves blood pressure changes from laying to standing.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
This protein, found in hypertonic fluids, attracts water into circulation by creating oncotic pressure.
These medications end in "-pril" and are used to treat these 3 conditions.
What are ACE Inhibitors and treats heart, blood vessels, and kidney conditions.
These are the drugs used to treat hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, respectively. And this is the most important patient education point for someone taking hyperthyroidism medication.
What is
-Hypothyroidism: Levothyroxine and Liothyronine
-Hyperthyroidism: PTU,
-Patients taking PTU should avoid iodized foods, including seafood
These food/drug interactions prevent medications from being properly absorbed into the body.
What is dairy products, antacids, and iron supplements?
Patients taking Gentamicin should be monitored for these two specific toxicities that affect hearing and kidneys.
What are ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity?
This hypertonic solution, often used as a plasma-expander, helps draw water into circulation and is safe for patients with sepsis but not those with traumatic brain injury.
What is 25% Albumin?
This medication is considered a cardiac glycoside and belongs to this class of medications that strengthens the heart’s contraction, increasing cardiac output.
What is Digoxin and a positive inotrope?
This insulin has a rapid onset and reaches its onset, peak effect, and duration in this amount of time.
What is Insulin Lispro and
-Onset: 5-15 minutes
-Peak: 30 minutes
-Duration: 3-5 hours
These are the responsibilities of the nurse when providing drug therapy to clients.
What is
-Management of pain medication
-Management of therapeutic and adverse effects of medication
-Management of patient education and information
-Evaluation of effectiveness of medication therapy.
The nurse should monitor these three health indicators regularly when their patient is on a diuretic.
What are weight, intake and output, and serum electrolyte levels?
The low level potassium in the body can increase the risk of this condition.
What is digitalis toxicity?
These are the 3 main body systems with their specific symptoms that are consistent with digoxin toxicity and this drug is the antidote for digoxin.
These are the 4 main patient education points regarding Insulin storage and administration.
What is
-Store insulin in fridge, NOT freezer
-Roll insulin vials rather than shaking them
-Should be given SubQ in fatty areas (stomach, thigh)
-Check blood glucose before insulin administration