Role of the Nurse
Assessment Identification Planning Implementation Evaluation
What is the Nursing Process?
Where metabolism of drugs occur
What is the liver?
Pull, Prep, Pass
What is the triple check?
The nervous system activated under stress.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The number of tablets to give a patient who has 100 mg of metoprolol ordered, but the nurse has 50 mg metoprolol tablets on hand.
What is 2 tablets?
Pre-clinical investigation in the lab, Clinical investigation, New drug application review, Post-marketing surveillance
What is the order of the drug approval process by the FDA?
Movement from the site of administration, across body membranes, to circulating fluids
What is absorption?
Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time, Right Documentation
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
What is norepinephrine?
The number of tablets to give a patient who has 25 mg of metoprolol ordered, but the nurse has 50 mg metoprolol tablets on hand.
What is 0.5 tablets?
Take extra care of patients on blood thinners. Label all medication containers. Get an accurate medication reconcillation.
What are the Joint Commission Standards of medication administration?
When a drug has a small margin of safety
What is a Narrow Therapeutic Index?
QID
What is four times per day?
An adrenergic antagonist that lowers heart rate and blood pressure.
The number of tablets to give a patient who has 0.5 g of metoprolol ordered, but the nurse has 500 mg tablets on hand.
What is 1 tablet?
Usually lowercase, easier to say, and sometimes have similar prefixes or suffixes.
What are generic drug names?
A drug that increases metabolic activity in the liver
What is an Enzyme Inductor?
What are inhalation drugs?
The primary neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system.
What is acetylcholine?
The amount of mLs to give a patient who has 4,000 units of heparin ordered, but the nurse has a 5,000 unit/mL vial available.
What is 0.8 mL?
An unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury.
What is a Sentinel Event?
When a drug is rendered inactive after absorption, distribution, and metabolism
What is the First-Pass Effect?
A response that is the opposite of the medication's intended action.
What is a paradoxical effect?
The system that makes your pupils constrict when activated.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System or rest and digest?
The amount of mLs to give a patient who has metoprolol 900 mg/kg/D ordered and who weighs 112 lbs, but the nurse has a 50,000 mg/mL metoprolol vial?
(round to the tenths)
What is 0.9 mLs?