Right drug - Correct medication to be administered
Right dose - Verification of the amount of the prescribed medication given to the patient
Right time - Time medications need to be administered. 30 min before or 30 min after last dose.
Right rout - Verification of the rout medication needs to b...
Fortis College pharmacology exam 1 Right drug - ✔✔ Correct medication to be administered Right dose - ✔✔ Verification of the amount of the prescribed medication given to the patient Right time - ✔✔ Time medications need to be administered. 30 min before or 30 min after last dose. Right rout - ✔✔ Verification of the rout medication needs to be administered Right patient - ✔✔ Requires confirmation of the person receiving the medication. Tw o identifiers needed: Name and Birth date. An ID can be used. Nursing Process - ✔✔ ADPIE: Assessment - collecting data Diagnosis - Objective or subjective data Plan - planning what is going to happen Implement - take to action Evaluate - how meds worked. Category D drugs - ✔✔ Benefit for the mother, might hurt baby Category X drugs - ✔✔ No benefit for mother or baby. Not safe during pregnancy Polypharmacy - ✔✔ Many different drugs treating the patient with several health problems Pharmacokinetics - ✔✔ Process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed within the body, metabolized, and excreted. (effect from when drugs enter the body until it leaves. Radioactive dosing - ✔✔ Weight= how to dose Ethnicity - ✔✔ Different medications metab olize different depending on the ethnicity. Africans with anti hypertensive (Blood Pressure) drugs - ✔✔ Diuretics work better than Beta blockers. Calcium channel blockers work better specially Diazepam. Asians and Hispanics with Psychotic and anti anxiety drugs - ✔✔ Asians need lower doses of these drugs such as Haloperidol. Asians and Hispanics respond better to lower doses of antidepressants. Chinese require lower doses of psychotics. Japanese require lower dosages of antimanic drugs Teaching plan - ✔✔ Make sure they understand. They repeat what we said or showed them. Before giving meds, what should the RN do? - ✔✔ PO assessment. determine patient ability to take medication successfully. Safety considerations and assessment - ✔✔ Determine which medicatio ns are which and what they are for. Classes of meds with highest potential to cause harm - ✔✔ C1- High potential for abuse C2- High potential for abuse, may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence. High alert meds - Narcotics (can cause the most harm) Sublingual medications - ✔✔ Works immediately, goes directly to the blood, don't go to the stomach. works faster than pills. Liquid medications - ✔✔ Work faster than powder. Always measure with a medically approved device. Do not administer with a household spoon and/or put in babys bottle.
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