1. Why do we do the 5 rights when giving medications? 2. How many patient identifiers do we need? 3. How do you give sublingual nitroglycerin 4. Benefit of giving a transder- mal patch? 1. right drug 2. right person 3. right dose 4. right route 5. right time To ensure patient safety W...
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1. Why do we do the 5 rights
1.right drug
when giving medications?
2.right person
3.right dose
4.right route
5.right time
To ensure patient safety
2. How many patient
We need 2 patient identifiers to
identifiers do we need?
ensure that it is the correct patient
3. How do you give
Have patient put medication
sublingual nitroglycerin
underneath their tongue while
sitting or lying down
3 doses within 15 minutes with each
dose being 3-5 minutes apart
Kept away from light in a container
4. Benefit of giving a transder- Systolic must remain above 90
mal patch?
Gives the medication a constant level,
where the levels in the body do not
fluctuate as much
5. Trough levels Lowest plasma concentration of a
drug and it measures the rate at
which the drug is eliminated from the
body
Rate of elimination
Drawn immediately before the next
dose is given
6. What drugs do you Drugs that have a narrow therapeutic
draw trough levels for? index
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7. Therapeutic index Estimates the margin of safety for a
drug
using a ratio that measures the effective
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therapeutic dose in 50% of people and
the lethal dose in 50% of people
Closer the number to 1 the higher the
like- lihood of danger
8. What drugs do you draw Digoxin
peak and trough levels for?
Aminoglycosides
9. What are peak levels Rate of absoprtion
10. If someone has reoccurring They have developed acquired
infections and they keep tak- bacterial re- sistance
ing antibiotics and they are
no longer working what has
hap- pened?
11. Onset of action Time it takes for a drug to reach the
mini- mum effective concentration
after a drug is administered (MEC)
12. How are drug doses According to the % that the drug does
per- scribed not bind to protein
Any amount of the drug that does not
bind to protein has an effect, if it is
bound to protein it cannot do
anything
13. Half-life of a drug Time it takes for half of the drug
concentra-
tion to be eliminated
650mg aspirin half-life: 3hrs it
would take 3 hours for 325 to be
left and 6 hours for 162mg to be
left and so on
14. Benefits of using a generic drug?
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Cost effective
15.
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