Med Admin Chapter 1

Question 1

A series of nursing actions to protect the patient from drug error

Answer 1

9 Rights of Drug Administration

Question 2

A drug effect that is more severe than expected and has the potential to damage tissue or cause serious health problems also called toxic effect or toxicity

Answer 2

Adverse effect

Question 3

The first step of the nursing process that involves gathering information about the patient that will be used in planning care

Answer 3

assessment

Question 4

A health-related reason for not giving a specific drug to a patient or a group of patients

Answer 4

contraindication

Question 5

A name (or label) for the patient’s disease or condition

Answer 5

diagnosis

Question 6

Unintended but not unusual effects of the drug that occur in many people taking the drug; they are usually mild and do not require that the drug be stopped

Answer 6

expected side effects

Question 7

The process of determining the right response looking at what happens to the patient when the nursing care plan is out into action

Answer 7

evaluation

Question 8

any setting in which the LPN practices nursing

Answer 8

healthcare setting

Question 9

Information used to reliably prove an individual is the person for whom the drug treatment is intended. Identifiers may be person’s full name, their medical record identification number, birth date, or even the telephone number

Answer 9

identifiers

Question 10

The act of carrying out the planned interventions

Answer 10

implementation

Question 11

A system to guide the nurse’s work in a logical way. Consists of five major steps 1, assessment, 2, diagnosis, 3, planning, 4, implementation, 5, evaluation

Answer 11

nursing process

Question 12

information that can be seen, heard, felt, or measured by someone other than the patient

Answer 12

objective data

Question 13

using information gathered in the nursing assessment about the patient to set short term and long term goals

Answer 13

planning

Question 14

reports of what the patient says he or she is feeling or thinks

Answer 14

subjective data

Question 15

the intended action of the drug, also known as a drug’s beneficial outcome

Answer 15

therapeutic effect

Question 16

What are the 5 steps to the nursing process?

Answer 16

ADPIE, assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation

Question 17

Who is the comprehensive care plan done by? (the nursing process)

Answer 17

The RN

Question 18

What does the first part of Assessment relating to drug administration involve?

Answer 18

gathering information about the patient and the patient’s health condition before you give drugs/medications

Question 19

What can LPNs do?

Answer 19

#1 assess vital signs
#2 assess physical findings based observation
#3 auscultation
#4 light palpation as appropriate

Question 20

What are the 9 rights?

Answer 20

#1 right patient
#2 right drug
#3 right dose
#4 right route
#5 right time
#6 right reason
#7 right documentation
#8 right response
#9 right to refuse

Question 21

What part of the nursing process involves Therapeutic effects, expected side effects, and adverse effects

Answer 21

Evaluation

Question 22

What part of the nursing process involves objective and subjective data

Answer 22

assessment

Question 23

what part of the nursing process involves the 9 rights

Answer 23

implementation

Question 24

what part of the nursing process involves primary and secondary nursing problems, social, psychologic, educational, safety, nutritional (MASLOWs) problems

Answer 24

diagnosis

Question 25

what part of the nursing process involves therapeutic goals, knowledge about the drug, special needs equipment, and teaching needs

Answer 25

planning

Question 26

What are the 2 highest priorities for an LPN during the initial assessment phase?

Answer 26

Collect data about the patients health and health condition

Question 27

During the diagnosis stage what is the LPNs role

Answer 27

to determine how much the patient understands about his or her drug/medication

Question 28

If you’re teaching a patient with depression about the adverse effects of a prescribed drug what part of the nursing process related to drug therapy are you engaging in at this point of the teaching plan?

Answer 28

The evaluation stage because that is the stage where adverse effects fall under

Question 29

Patient recently began taking blood pressure medication and comes for a follow up appointment. Which phase of the nursing process is this?

Answer 29

Evaluation because it is a follow up

Question 30

The LPN gives drugs to her assigned patients for that shift, which phase of the nursing process is this?

Answer 30

Implementation because medication administration is the 9 Rights

Question 31

You have a new order for a med and the order is unclear as to how many times a day it is given, what is your best action?

Answer 31

Call the health care provider to clarify the order

Question 32

A patient is receiving antibiotics for pneumonia.. a rash appears on the person’s chest.. it itches and they have shortness of breath.. Which effect is this?

Answer 32

adverse

Question 33

Before administration of a scheduled drug the patient states they cannot take the drug due to an allergy, what should you do first?

Answer 33

Do not give the drug, obviously, but clarify the patient’s allergy history then notify the health care provider to determine the next course of action

Question 34

If a patient has a drug ordered by a doctor and they want it to be administered by mouth, what is going to be your priority assessment?

Answer 34

Making sure they can swallow

Question 35

You are obtaining a patient’s drug history.. what information should you collect?

Answer 35

Drugs currently being taken, diseases or issues requiring a drug prescription, alcohol use, and drug allergies