NURSE role
Which governing body is in charge of medication safety and efficacy?
These are the three types (categories) of medications that can be given or taken
OTC, prescription, controlled substances
This is the document that nurses use to retrieve and document what medications they give.
What is an MAR (medication administration record)
How drugs pass through the body into circulation
What is absorption
When two drugs are mixed together to make a simple combination.
What is an additive effect.
What is a drug that causes birth defects?
AC
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process?
A: Assess
D: Diagnosis
P: Plan
I: Intervene
E: Evaluate
What are two reasons patients prefer OTC medications
Self-prescribed, cheaper, easy access, they're low dose
P-Potassium
I-Insulin
N-Narcotics
C-Chemotherapy
H-Heparin
What are high alert drugs.
How drugs leave the body
What is excretion
When drugs are added together and enhance one another's effect.
Government that approves drugs for distribution.
What is the FDA?
BID
The law that regulates RN's in each state
The Nurse Practice Act
Type of medication that can be given by a nurse in a hospital without an order from a provider.
What is none.
Drug has a higher-than-normal risk for causing serious and even life-threatening problems in addition to its positive benefits has this kind of a cautionary advice.
What are black box warnings.
How drugs move throughout different compartments of the body
What is distribution
Drugs that bind with a receptor for a desired effect.
What is an agonist.
When a older patient takes multiple drugs.
What is polypharmacy.
Q
What is every
Two types of information collected by nurses during the patient's history.
Objective and subjective.
This person may delegate authority to (for example) an MA or a CNA or LPN
Who is a nurse
When a nurse checks the patient's med list with their previous med list and then reviews with the patient what meds they're taking.
Medication reconciliation.
How drugs are transformed into the cell
A drug that blocks another drug.
What is an antagonist.
What a nurse does when s/he makes a medication error.
What is report it to his/her supervisor?
QHS
What is at bedtime
These are the first 5 rights when you give a drug?
1.Right patient
2.Right drug
3.Right dose
4.Right route
5.Right time
An order that is written "as needed"
What is PRN
This is the document that informs the nurse what a patient's daily activities, diet, special problems or assistive needs are.
What is a Kardex
The amount of time it takes for a drug to reach 50% of its peak level.
What is Half Life
When a substance acts by interfering with a molecule's action
What is interference?
The type of order that the Joint Commission recommends nurses not take.
What are verbal or telephone orders?
TID
Three times per day