Stress & Coping
This automatic physiological response prepares the body to fight or flee.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
This 24-hour internal clock regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm?
The movement of a medication from the site of administration into the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
The nurse's legal record of medication administration.
What is the MAR (Medication Administration Record)?
Two drugs taken together produce a greater effect than individually.
What is a synergistic effect?
The stage of General Adaptation Syndrome where the body attempts to restore homeostasis.
What is the resistance stage?
The sleep disorder caused by upper airway collapse during sleep.
What is obstructive sleep apnea?
The organ responsible for most drug metabolism.
What is the liver?
A complete prescription must include this, or the nurse must clarify before giving the medication.
What is the provider's signature?
Also accepted: What is any missing component of the prescription?
This reaction is an unexpected, abnormal response to a drug.
What is a idiosyncratic reaction?
This theory states that stress is a dynamic transaction between a person and their environment.
What is the transactional theory of stress and coping?
Excessive daytime sleepiness with sudden muscle weakness describes this disorder.
What is narcolepsy?
Oral medications lose concentration due to this metabolic process before reaching systemic circulation.
What is the first-pass effect?
The first nursing action after discovering a medication error.
What is assess the client?
Warfarin taken with NSAIDs increases this risk.
What is bleeding?
This type of stress is long-term, disabling, and linked to anxiety, depression, and cardiovascular disease.
What is chronic stress?
The first-line pharmacological treatment for sleep across all ages?
What is melatonin?
The time is takes for a medication to fall to half its concentration.
What is half-life?
The system reduces medication errors by 31% and links administration to the EHR.
What is an automated medication dispensing system (AMDS)?
Grapefruit juice inhibits metabolism of these cholesterol-lowering drugs.
What are statins?
A stress disorder lasting 3 days to 1 month after a traumatic event.
What is acute stress disorder?
This disorder involves an urge to move the legs due to discomfort, worse at night.
What is restless leg syndrome?
High lipid-soluble medications absorb faster because they cross these structures more easily.
What are cellular membranes?
Removing a medication from AMDS before pharmacist review is called this.
What is override?
This life-threatening allergic reaction includes dyspnea, hypotension, and tachycardia.
What is anaphylaxis?