Medication management

Question 1

How can you take medicine

Answer 1

• Pills
• Liquid
• Drops
• Creams, ointment
• Transdermal patches
• Injections or IV

Question 2

What is medication management and what questions do you ask yourself before giving medicine to patient

Answer 2

Medication management ensures safe medication and optimises safe,effective drug therapy

Questions to ask urself:
* What are they for
* Why patient needs them
* How should they be taken
* When should they be taken

Never give medication if you dont know what it is what it does and side

Effects

Question 3

What can medicines do

Answer 3

Cure illness by killing pathogens
Used to treat cancer by killing cells as they divide
used to replace/correct hormone or vitamin level
Affects NS that controls a body process

Question 4

Different types of drugs

Answer 4

Hormone drugs (insulin injections)
Pain relief/Analgesia
Immunisations
Long term condition drugs ( high blood pressure or high cholestrol

Question 5

What is pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

Answer 5

Pharmacokinetics- Movement of drugs through the body. This can be absorption, distribution, metabolism and eliminaton

pharmacodynamics- What drug does in body

Question 6

What part of the code links to medication management

Answer 6

Preserve safety
18. prescribe, supply, or administer medicines within the limits of your training and competence

18.1 Only give drug treatment if you have enough knowledge of patients health and satisfied it meets the needs of the patient health

18.2 Use appropriate guildelines when administering drugs

18.3 take all steps to keep medicines stored securely

18.4 avoid prescribing for yourself or for anyone with whom you have a close personal relationship

Question 7

Duty of candour

Answer 7

When something goes wrong or treatment has potential harm you must:
1. Tell patient something has gone wrong
2. Apologise
3. If possible put matters right by offering appropraite remedy
4. Explain short term effect and long term effects

Question 8

9 Rights of medication

Answer 8

1. Right patient
2. Right drug
3. Right route
4. Right time
5. Right dose
6. Right documentation
7. Right action
8. Right form
9. Right response

Question 9

What does 9 Right of medication allow for

Answer 9

Assists in decreasing medication errors

Question 10

Rule of thumb when calculating medication

Answer 10

When going from a larger unit to smaller unit you x by 1000

When going from smaller unit to a larger unit you / by 1000

e.g. 10kg (large) –> grams (smaller) = 10x1000= 10000g

1000g —> Kg= 1000g/1000= 1Kg

Question 11

1. 1Kg =
2. 1g=
3. 1mg=
4. 1mcg=

Answer 11

1. 1kg=1000g
2. 1g=1000mg
3. 1mg=1000mcg
4. 1mcg=1000ng

Question 12

1. 1L=
2. 1ml=

Answer 12

1. 1L=1000ml
2. 1ml =1000microlitres

Question 13

Formula for drug calculations

Answer 13

What you want (dose required) / what you have (strength available)

Question 14

Example question : An adolescent is prescribed 1g of paracetamol. Your stock contains 500mg tab;ets. How many tablets do you need to give?

Answer 14

First convert.

1g=1000mg (what we want)

Strength available is 500mg

1000mg/500mg=2 tablets

Question 15

Drug calculations for liquid

Answer 15

What you want (dose required) / What you have (strength available) x the volume you have

Question 16

Drug calculations for liquid example Q:
An infant is prescrobed flucloxacillin 37.5mg and you have availbale flucloxacillin syrup 125mg in 5ml?

Answer 16

37.5/ 125 = 0.3 mg

0.3mg x 5ml (volume) = 1.5ml