When studying the drugs, always review the nursing process—what are
you assessing for and teaching the patient about? What are the common
diagnoses? What are the expected outcomes/what are you evaluating as
the effects of the medications?
Medication Rights
Nursing Process and Administration of Meds ( chpt 1)
Guidelines for nursing care planning (box 1-1)
Medication errors and how to prevent ( chpt 5)
Reporting medication errors
Ethical Standards-Autonomy, Beneficience, Nonmalfecience, Veracity, Justice
Medication Routes and related nursing considerations (table 2-3)
Protein Bound Medications
First Pass Effect
Black box warnings
Pharmaceutics is the study of how various dosage forms influence the way in
which the drug affects the body.
Pharmacokinetics is the study of what the body does to the drug.
Pharmacokinetics involves the processes of absorption, distribution,
metabolism, and excretion.
Pharmacodynamics, on the other hand, is the study of what the drug does to the
body.
Pharmacotherapeutics- (also called therapeutics) focuses on the clinical use of
drugs to prevent and treat diseases. It defines the principles of drug actions—the
cellular processes that change in response to the presence of drug molecules
Types of drug interactions (additive, synergistic, antagonistic, incompatibility)
Adverse drug reaction and idiosyncratic reaction
Renal and Liver role in drugs administration
Half-life-concept
Lifespan Considerations-Elderly, Infants, Children, Pregnant Women
Cultural Considerations ( chpt 4)
Order Clarification
Patient Education ( chpt 6)
OTC medications/Herbal Supplements ( chpt 7)
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