Medication Management + Preceptorship + Nurse Leading Quality

Question 1

Principle 6 (code of conduct)

Answer 1

Nurses must work respectfully with colleagues to best meet health consumers needs

Question 2

Preceptors

Answer 2

Experienced nurses who have excellent clinical skills, and have ability to facilitate learning

Question 3

Primary Roles of Preceptors

Answer 3

• Role Model
• Educator
• Socializer

Question 4

Professional Socialisation

Answer 4

Complex and interactive process in
which the skills, knowledge and
behaviours inherent in a professional
role are learned

Question 5

Assimilation

Answer 5

Process through which individuals and
groups of differing heritages acquire
the basic habits, attitudes, and mode
of life of another culture

Question 6

Nursing Informatics

Answer 6

Nursing Informatics science and practice
integrates nursing, its information and
knowledge and their management with
information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families and communities world wide

Question 7

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 7

movement of drugs in the body

Question 8

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 8

effect of drugs in the body

Question 9

Pharmacology

Answer 9

The study of chemicals that affect the body’s functioning

Question 10

Generic Name

Answer 10

The name assigned by the manufacturer that first develops the drug

Question 11

Controlled Medications

Answer 11

Drugs that are potentially addictive and harmful, or are subject to abuse or criminal misuse

Question 12

Drug-receptor interaction

Answer 12

Drug interacts with one or more cellular structures to alter cell function

Question 13

Drug-enzyme interaction

Answer 13

drug combines with enzymes to achieve desired effect

Question 14

Peak

Answer 14

highest plasma concentration of the drug

Question 15

Trough

Answer 15

Lowest concentration of the drug

Question 16

Therapeutic Range

Answer 16

Concentration of the drug that produces the desired effect without causing toxicity

Question 17

Half-life

Answer 17

amount of time it takes for 1/2 does of the drug to be eliminated from the body

Question 18

Routes of Excretion

Answer 18

the kidneys
the lungs
the intestines
sweat, salivary and mammary glands

Question 19

Therapeutic Effects

Answer 19

Expected or desired physiological response

Question 20

Contraindications

Answer 20

A drugs should not be used because it may be harmful to the patient

Question 21

Non Prescription (OTC)

Answer 21

Can block the effects or enhance the effects of other prescribed medications

Question 22

Adverse Drug Effects

Answer 22

More severe effects which may require discontinuation of the drug

Question 23

Idiosyncratic effects

Answer 23

abnormal or peculiar response to a drug; over
response, under response or response different from the expected outcome

Question 24

Drug Interactions

Answer 24

the combined effect of two or more drugs acting simultaneously to increase or decrease the effect of each drug alone

Question 25

PRN Order

Answer 25

Pro re nata
Take as needed

Question 26

APIE

Answer 26

Assessment
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

Question 27

HPCAA 2003

Answer 27

to ensure public confidence that health practitioners are fit to practice
(legislates the registration requirements and expectation that nurses will be competent in chosen field of practice)

Question 28

Most common indicator of competence…

Answer 28

performance

Question 29

6 principles of health improvement

Answer 29

Safe
Effective
Patient-centered
Timely (reduce waiting)
Efficient (reduce waste)
Equitable

Question 30

PDSA cycle for learning and improving

Answer 30

Plan
Do
Study
Act

Question 31

Six Sigma

Answer 31

Specific methodology to ensure that value-added steps are included in the process, that has no waste