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True or False? Med aides may only give a PRN if the nurse has specifically delegated the task for the specific resident and drug? ✔✔True. Med aide can't assess the need for a PRN, this must be done by a nurse Med aides can't do what? ✔✔Give first doses of new meds Factors affecting drug actions include what? ✔✔Weight, age, metabolic rate, and tolerance What are the six rights of med administration? ✔✔The right drug, the right person, the right documentation, the right route, the right dose, and the right time Before you work as a med aide, you? ✔✔Must pass course exams, complete and demonstrate skills As a med aide in your facility, you should what? ✔✔Work within the legal limits of your role You tell a patient about your personal problems. This is a what? ✔✔boundary violation
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A nurse asks you to do something beyond the legal limits of your role. You do what? ✔✔Refuse to follow the nurses order and explain why You're not sure whether you should give a certain drug, You should do what? ✔✔Ask the Nurse In order to assess a person, the nurse decides to give the person the oral drugs that you usually give. You do what? ✔✔Understand this is the best decision for the person at the time. The nurse asks you to perform a task that is in your job description. You have not done this task before. You do what? ✔✔Tell the nurse you have not done the task before and ask for help When you agree to perform a delegated task. You what? ✔✔Must complete the task safely A nurse asks you to perform a task. You do the following except what? restate or clarify what is expected of you, know how to contact the nurse if theres an emergency, document the care given, or do the task even though you have not been trained? ✔✔Do the task even though you have not been trained What step can the nurse delegate to you? ✔✔Give certain drugs The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the power to do the following except what? Determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs before marketing, ensure that manufacturers
Which statement about an ethical person is true? ✔✔An ethical person behaves in the right way You display ethical behavior by what? ✔✔Keeping the persons property safe To protect yourself from assault and battery, you what? ✔✔Get the persons consent before doing a procedure A nurse gives the wrong dosage of a drug to a person. This is what? ✔✔malpractice You gave a drug to the wrong person. This is what? ✔✔Negligence You trick a person into taking a drug. This is called what? ✔✔Fraud You scold an older person for refusing to take ordered drugs This is what? ✔✔Verbal abuse Violating or failing to comply with the Controlled Substance Act can result in a what? ✔✔Fine and Prison term Pain and nausea are examples of what? ✔✔Subjective Data What observations should you report at once? ✔✔Complaints of sudden severe pain
Cancer and diabetes are examples of what? ✔✔Medical Diagnosis A person is eating. How long should you wait before taking an oral temperature? ✔✔ 15 to 20 minutes A person has a blood pressure of 118/78. This is what? ✔✔Within normal range Good communication occurs when you what? ✔✔Give information in a logical and orderly manner A drug is ordered for 1700. The time to give the drug is what? ✔✔5:00 PM Symptoms are an example of what? ✔✔Subjective Data Which of the following is not objective data? A persons respiratory rate, the color of a persons urine, a persons blood pressure, or pain felt by a person? ✔✔Pain felt by a person When should you record that you gave a person a drug? ✔✔After giving the drug You are giving a person his drugs. What observation should you report at once? ✔✔The person refused to take a drug
The generic name of a drug is the what? ✔✔Drugs common name Drugs that interact with a receptor to cause a response are what? ✔✔Agonists Absorption is the what? ✔✔Process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to circulating body fluids for distribution an enteral drug is given? ✔✔Throuhg the oral, rectal, and naso-gastric routes The primary routes of excretion for a drug are what? ✔✔Elimination through urine and feces An idiosyncratic reaction is what? ✔✔Something unusual or abnormal that happens when a drug is first given A drug interaction occurs when ✔✔The action of one drug is altered by the action of another drug Another term for urticaria is what? ✔✔Hives A severe, life threatening sensitivity to an antigen is what? ✔✔Anaphylaxis
The rate of absorption depends on the following except what? ✔✔The clinical indications for using a drug A prescription drug needs what? ✔✔A doctors order Most drugs are metabolized in what? ✔✔In the liver Symptoms of anaphylaxis include the following except what? ✔✔Warm, dry skin Which factor enhances topical drug absorption in older persons? ✔✔Decreasing skin thickness Which oral drug form may be crushed? ✔✔Tablets When giving a drug to a child, you should what? ✔✔Open capsules and sprinkle contents on small amounts of food An older person is at risk for drug interactions or drug toxicity because of what? ✔✔Chronic illnesses When assisting an older person with taking her drugs, you should what? ✔✔Report swallowing difficulties to the nurse
Therapeutic drug monitoring is done to measure what? ✔✔A drugs concentration in the body A tablet is scored. This means what? ✔✔The tablet can be broken in half A doctor begins to give you a telephone order. You do what? ✔✔Politely give your name and title and ask the doctor to wait for a nurse Your moms friend is a client where you work. You're not giving care to that person, but you read the persons chart. This is called what? ✔✔Invasion of Privacy A person asks you for his or her chart. What do you do? ✔✔Report the request to the nurse After giving the drug, you record it on the what? ✔✔MAR Which order requires the drug to be given at once and only one time? ✔✔STAT order Which order allows the nurse to decide when to give the drug based on the persons needs? ✔✔PRN order One tablespoon is how many teaspoons? ✔✔Three
The following statements are about prescription labels. Which is false? Always read the label carefully, If a label is not complete tell the nurse at once, check the expiration date, or you may give the drug after the expiration date ✔✔You may give the drug after the expiration date A drug is ordered q.i.d. the drug should be given when? ✔✔ 4 times a day A drug is ordered q8h. The drug should be given when? ✔✔Every 8 hours A drug is ordered p.c. The drug is given when? ✔✔After meals A prescription label is not complete. You should what? ✔✔Tell the nurse Before giving a drug, you must do what? ✔✔Check the persons allergies A person was discharged and you need to dispose of a drug. What do you do? ✔✔Ask someone to watch you dispose of the drug Before giving any drug, you compare the exact spelling of the drug against the what? ✔✔MAR A drug is ordered for 9:00 AM. You may give the drug between when? ✔✔8:30 am and 9:30 am
You have a drug ready to give. The person refuses to take the drug. What should you do with the drug? ✔✔Dispose of it according to policy The right dose is what? ✔✔The amount of drug to give To prevent infections you should do what? ✔✔Practice hand hygiene before and after giving drugs A drug order is written as PO. You do what? ✔✔Give the drug as ordered One tsp equals what? ✔✔ 5 mL You are giving liquid drugs. You do what? ✔✔Give cough syrup last You are giving a buccal tablet. The tablet is what? ✔✔Placed between the cheek and molar teeth Another term for lozenge is what? ✔✔Troche Which of the following drug orders would you question? 50 mg by mouth, 50 mg PO, 50 mg orally, or 50 mg per os? ✔✔50 mg per os
A person is receiving a time-released capsule This means what? ✔✔There is a continuous release of the drug Enteric-coated tablets dissolve in the what? ✔✔Small intestines Before giving a suspension, you do what? ✔✔Shake the bottle An ointment is in a jar. What should you use to remove the amount ordered? ✔✔A sterile tongue blade When applying a topical drug, you do all the following except what? Apply the dose to clean dry skin, wear gloves, practice hand hygiene before and after the application, or document before applying the drug? ✔✔Document before applying the drug You need to give a person two different eye drugs. How long should you wait between the drugs? ✔✔Usually 1 to 5 minutes How long does a person remain in the side-lying position after receiving ear drops? ✔✔Usually 5 - 10 minutes When giving an eye medication, you what? ✔✔Give eye drops at room temperature
Beta blocking agents (beta blockers) are commonly used to treat what? ✔✔Angina Before giving a benzodiapine, you should what? ✔✔Measure vital signs You are giving a person carbidopa, levodopa (Sinemet CR) tablets. You do what? ✔✔Ask the person to swallow the tablet whole Anti-cholinergic agents are given to persons with Parkinsons disease to what? ✔✔Reduce drooling and tremors The first thing you do when a person develops an allergic reaction to a drug is to what? ✔✔Tell the nurse at once A drug that produces sleep is called what? ✔✔A hypnotic Albuterol (Proventil) is used for asthma and emphysema because it is what? ✔✔A bronchodilator Before giving a beta blocker, you what? ✔✔Measure BP, heart rate, and rhythm Benzodiapines can cause drowsiness, hangover, sedation, and what? ✔✔Lethargy
Zolpidem (Ambien) should be taken when? ✔✔Before bed The most common side effects for benziodiapines are what? ✔✔Drowsiness and loss of coordination You're giving a person fluoxetine (Prozac). You should what? ✔✔Remind the person to use caution when performing tasks that require alertness A person with a bipolar disorder has what? ✔✔Has emotional lows and emotional highs A person has been started on selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. You expect to see drug effects in what? ✔✔2 to 4 weeks Many of the drugs used to treat mental health disorders affect the what? ✔✔Central Nervous System Anti-psychotic drugs often cause what? ✔✔Involuntary body movements Phenytoin (Dilantin) is given with what? ✔✔Food or milk A person with an allergic reaction to a drug develops what? ✔✔Rash and itching
Opiate agonists can cause euphoria. Euphoria is what? ✔✔An exaggerated feeling of well-being Gemfibrozil (Lopid) is given when? ✔✔ 30 minutes before the morning and evening meals LDL is called what? ✔✔The bad cholesterol The daily dose of atorvastatin (Lipitor) is what? ✔✔ 10 to 40 mg Which drug is a fibric acid? ✔✔Gemfibrozil (Lopid) Common side effects from anti-lipemic drugs are what? ✔✔Nausea and abdominal discomfort Niacin acts as an anti-lipemic bevause it what? ✔✔Limits the livers ability to produce LDL Statins lower LDL and total cholesterol levels because they what? ✔✔Block the enzyme needed to produce cholesterol Before giving most anti-hypertensive agents, you measure the what? ✔✔Apical pulse Before giving most anti-hypertensive agents, you take the BP in what position? ✔✔Supine and Standing
A person on an ACE inhibitor has hypotension and tachycardia. What should you do? ✔✔Report this to the nurse at once A person is taking diltiazem (Cardizem) a calcium ion antagonist. The person should what? ✔✔Measure his or her weight daily A person taking an alpha- 1 adrenergic blocking agent complains of weakness and lethargy. You what? ✔✔Both report it and record it In what situation will the persons blood pressure be lowest? ✔✔When lying down Which BP is normal? 136/84, 158/82, 142/88, or 116/76? ✔✔116/ A person has a BP of 142/90. This is considered what? ✔✔Hypertension A person on a beta blocker is having bradycardia and wheezing. You what? ✔✔Withhold the next dose if the nurse tells you to Which promote the formation and excretion of urine? ✔✔Dieuretics What is a calcium channel blocker? ✔✔Amlodipine (Norvasc)
