Drug classifications
Adrenergic agonist drugs are also known by what name?
What is sympathomimetic?
CNS depression is a common drug interaction between psychotherapeutic drugs and what socially imbibed substance?
What is alcohol.
The nurse should assess a patient taking anticholinergic meds for which diagnosis?
What is glaucoma.
Your admit has a new diagnosis of epilepsy. Which nursing interventions are your highest priority?
What is seizure precautions: safe environment, place IV lock, set-up suction.
A nurse is providing dietary teaching for a client who has a new prescription for a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI). Which foods present a risk for interactions?
What is high tyramine containing foods.
Sertraline and fluoxetine are two drugs in which category and classification of meds?
What is antidepressants- serotonin re-uptake inhibitors.
The nurse knows that urinary retention is a side effect of which psychotherapeutic drug class?
What is antipsychotics-haloperidol?
A nurse is assessing a client who has been taking the antidepressant sertraline for 3 weeks. The nurse should identify which of the following findings as an indication that the medication is effective?
What is a report of mood elevation.
Your patient with CHF has been started on a beta-blocker medication. What interventions are appropriate for this patient?
What is monitor HR, BP, daily weights, and for complaints of fatigue.
The nurse educates the client who has had anaphylaxis on the following drug side effects: heart dysrhythmias, heart palpitations, fast heartbeat, and nausea. These are noticed with the use of which drug?
What is epinephrine.
List drugs that are classified as alpha adrenergic antagonists?
What is doxazosin, phentolamine, & tamsulosin.
Your patient has just begun taking a benzodiazepine to treat anxiety. You should monitor the client for which potentially injurious side effect of this class of medication?
What is drowsiness.
The nurse assesses a client starting a benzodiazepine prescription for which of the following?
What is suicide ideation.
You are caring for a patient who has asthma and you administer albuterol, a selective adrenergic agonist to treat bronchospasm. You will anticipate hearing what lung sounds with bronchospasm?
What is wheezes to the upper lobes.
You are teaching a patient who will begin taking the cholinergic agonist, bethanechol (Urecholine). Which statement by the patient indicates adequate teaching?
What is this medication will increase or improve my urine output.
Which classification of psychotherapeutic drug is used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in patients not responding to or intolerant of the usual antipsychotics?
What is Atypical antipsychotics.
Which side effects indicate an adverse reaction to the antidepressant serotonin norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors?
What is a pounding HA ( elevated BP) and tachycardia (feeling of heart racing or palpitations).
The nurse is assisting with a client who was just in a motor vehicle accident (MVA). The client complains of feeling jittery, with heart palpitations, and dizziness. Why is the client feeling this way?
His sympathetic nervous system has been triggered.
The patient has been started on a treatment regimen that includes the beta blocker atenolol (Tenormin) and complains of feeling weak. Which is the best response from the nurse?
What is this is a normal side effect-lets alternate periods of activity with periods of rest.
A nurse is reviewing discharge instructions with a client who has bipolar disorder and is taking lithium. Which of the following manifestations should the nurse include as an indication of toxicity?
What is memory impairment, tremors, and blurred vision.
This classification of antiseizure medication is restricted to short-term use ( 2 weeks or less) because of side effects and risk for drug tolerance?
What is Barbiturate drugs.
Side effects of antipsychotic medications including stiff, jerky movements of your face and body that you can't control, present as which disorder?
What is tardive dyskinesia.
The E.D. nurse assesses the patient as presenting with the inability to concentrate or sit down, irritation, and sweating as potentially having which disorder related to the use of serotonin effecting medications?
What is serotonin syndrome.
Your patient has been receiving the antiseizure medication phenytoin. What patient labs are considered a priority for the nurse to review?
What is monitor phenytoin level, BUN, creatinine, LFTs, and platelet count.
Your patient is beginning to have a new increase in their symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease. As the nurse you understand that this impacts medical management in what way?
What is -You notify the PCP about how the client's disease has progressed and that it may be time to add a second-line treatment.