High-Alert Medications
This hormone medication requires an independent double check.
What is insulin?
This route has the fastest absorption because it bypasses dissolution and GI factors?
What is IV?
The organ responsible for most drug metabolism.
What is the liver?
The nurse's legal record of medication administration.
What is the MAR?
This right ensures the nurse verifies the client's identity using two identifiers before giving a medication.
What is the Right client?
This IV electrolyte is high-alert because errors can cause cardiac arrest.
What is potassium chloride?
Oral medications are primarily absorbed in this part of the GI tract?
What is the small intestine?
What time it takes for a medication to fall to half its concentration.
What is half-life?
The first action the nurse must take after discovering a medication error.
What is assess the client?
This right requires the nurse to compare the medication label with the MAR three times.
What is the Right medication?
This opioid antagonist reverses overdose by blocking receptors.
What is naloxone?
This factor increases absorption because medications dissolve and cross membranes more easily.
What is lipid solubility?
This term describes the movement of a drug from the bloodstream to target tissues.
What is distribution?
A prescription missing any required component must be ------ before administration.
What is clarified?
This right ensures the nurse checks calculations, safe ranges, and whether the ordered amount is appropriate.
What is the Right dose?
This anticoagulant is contraindicated in pregnancy (except mechanical values).
What is warfarin?
This metabolic process reduces the bioavailability of oral medications before they reach systemic circulation.
What is the first-pass effect?
These medications are inactive until metabolized into their active form?
What are prodrugs?
Removing a medication from the AMDS before pharmacist review is called this.
What is clarified?
This right requires the nurse to confirm whether the medication should be given orally, IV, IM, SubQ, or another route.
What is the Right route?
Nurses must verify the time of the last dose, correct client, and dose calculation accuracy before giving these medications.
What are high-alert medications?
This route absorbs slower than IM because it has smaller blood vessels and more adipose tissue.
What is Sub-Q? (Subcutaneous)
!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This protective barrier allows lipid-soluble drugs to cross more easily but blocks many others.
What is the blood-brain barrier?
This process compares a client's current medications with new orders to prevent omissions and interactions.
What is medication reconciliation?
!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This right requires the nurse to know why the client is receiving the medication and to provide teaching before administration.
What is the Right education?