Patient Education
The phase of the nursing process where the nurse provides the education to a patient:
What is implementation?
When reviewing a label for an OTC medication, another name for indication:
What is use?
In the world of medicine, alcohol is referred to as:
What is ethanol or ETOH?
Hydrocodone, hydromorphone & morphine are examples of these drugs
What are opioids?
This form of nicotine replacement may be used to provide smaller amounts of nicotine over longer periods of time
What is a transdermal nicotine patch?
All drugs of this class end in
What is -azepam?
A nurse educates a patient that a new drug must be taken twice daily. The patient repeats this back to the nurse. This is an example of this learning domain:
What is the cognitive learning domain?
A common herbal supplement used in the treatment of superficial burns
What is aloe?
First line drug of choice for use in alcohol withdrawal
What is diazepam (Valium)?
When providing education, the nurse must emphasize that substance abuse recovery is a:
What is a life-long process?
This new drug marketed for smoking cessation, works by activating nicotine receptors and has many adverse effects
What is Varenicline (Chantix)?
First line drug choice for treatment of alcohol withdraw
What is diazepam (Valium)?
The phase of the nursing process where the nurse determines if learning has occurred
What is evaluation?
•May postpone effective treatment of more chronic disease states
•May delay treatment of serious or life-threatening disorders
•May relieve symptoms of a disorder but not the cause
What are potential hazards of OTC medications?
A classification for these four characteristics:
1. Intensifies sedative effects of medications that work in the CNS
2. Interacts with antibiotic metronidazole
3. Results in hepatotoxicity with acetaminophen
4. Increases bioavailability of blood thinner warfarin
What are drug and alcohol interactions?
This drug works by blocking the opioid receptors so that the use of opioid drugs do not produce euphoria
What is Naltrexone (Vivitrol, Revia)?
What is nicotine gum?
Benzodiazepines are especially dangerous when consumed with:
A commonality between these things:
•Learner assessment
•Outcomes
•Content provided
•Strategies used
•Patient response to the teaching session
•Overall evaluation of learning
What are things to be documented following patient education?
The three criteria of OTC supplements:
What are indications for use, safety profile, and practicality for use?
This life-threatening condition is an adverse event associated with alcohol withdraw that is characterized by hypertensive crisis, tachycardia, agitation, and hyperthermia
What is delirium tremens?
What is physical dependence?
Nicotine tolerance develops due to these two central nervous system affects
What is CNS stimulation and depression?
First line drug choice to cease seizure activity not associated with alcohol withdraw
What is lorazepam (Ativan)?
When determining patient education outcomes, the outcomes/goal must be:
SMART
Specific
Measurable
Attainable/Achievable
Realistic
Time-oriented
When reviewing a medication list, the nurse notes the patient is taking Enoxaparin (Lovenox), an antiplatelet medication at home. The nurse should educate the patient to avoid this herbal supplement:
What is gingko?
Patients prescribed to this drug must be educated on avoiding use of any and all products that contain alcohol
What is Disulfiram (Antabuse)?
This drug, used in combination with Naloxone, is an opioid that poses risk for abuse during opioid-abuse treatment
What is Buprenorphine?
This drug used as a smoking cessation aid is also classified as a commonly used antidepressant
What is Bupropion (Zyban)?
For a patient with a Lorazepam overdose, the nurse will administer:
What is Flumazenil?