IV exam

Question 1

What are a patients rights in regards to medication?

Answer 1

Patients have a right to:

• be informed of the name, purpose, action & potential side effects of drugs
• refuse a medication regardless of the consequences

Question 2

What constitutes a legal medication order?

Answer 2

Drug name (generic), dosage form, strength and dose required, prescriber’s printed name, signature and date of order.

Question 3

5 rights

Answer 3

right patient
right drug
right dose
right route 
right time

Question 4

Some different ways to give medications

Answer 4

• Intrathecally (into the space around the spinal cord)
• sublingually (under tongue)
• In the eye (via ocular route) or ear (by otic route)
• Sprayed into nose and absorbed through nasal membranes (nasally)
• breathed into lungs (nebulisation)
  transdermally (delivered through skin by a patch)

Question 5

Intrathecal medication?

Answer 5

Pain medication generally like morphine (allows direct drug administration to the CSF by circumventing the blood brain barrier)

Question 6

Sublingual and buccal medication purpose

Answer 6

• May be prescribed if it needs to get into your system quickly
• you have trouble swallowing medications
• It doesn’t absorb well in the stomach

Question 7

ocular medication why

Answer 7

used for eye infections

Question 8

Inhalation medication and nebuliser

Answer 8

asthma

Question 9

Transdermal medications ?

Answer 9

Fentanyl to relieve pain

clonidine to treat high blood pressure

Question 10

What is an IV pump?

Answer 10

An infusion pump infuses fluids, medication or nutrients into a patient’s circulatory system.

Question 11

What to check before administering IV medication?

Answer 11

The patency of the line must be checked.

Question 12

Half life meaning?

Answer 12

The period of time required for the concentration or amount of drug in the body to be reduced to exactly one-half of a given concentration or amount.

Question 13

Why would a patient need a blood transfusion?

Answer 13

• Anemia
• Sickle cell disease
• hypovaelemia

Question 14

Reaction symptoms to blood transfusion

Answer 14

• Back pain
• Dark urine
• chills
• fainting or dizziness
• fever
• flank pain
• skin flushing
• shortness of breath
• itching

Question 15

Agonist

Answer 15

A drug that stimulates a receptor

Question 16

Antagonist

Answer 16

A drug that blocks a receptor

Question 17

Chemical name

Answer 17

reflects a drugs chemical composition and molecular structure

Question 18

Generic name

Answer 18

Shortened, simplified version of the chemical name

Question 19

Medication

Answer 19

Any chemical that affects the processes of a living organism.

Question 20

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 20

The action of drugs on the body

Question 21

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 21

the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs

Question 22

Pharmacology

Answer 22

Science that deals with the properties, characteristics, actions and effects of drugs

Question 23

Pharmacotherapeutics

Answer 23

relates o the use of drugs and clinical indications for this use in the prevention and treatment of disease

Question 24

Receptor

Answer 24

A receptor triggers changes in cell activity

Question 25

Trade name

Answer 25

The brand name and registered trade mark used by the manufacturer to identify the preparation of a specific drug

Question 26

Transmitter

Answer 26

The chemical aid that assists the transfer of information across the neuroeffector junctions

Question 27

Antihistamine?

Answer 27

Drug that treats allergies