Medication Safety Flashcards
1
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Four elements to the national medicines policy
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Access to medications - PBS
Quality, safety, efficacy of medicines
Quality use of medicines
Viable and responsible medicines industry
2
Q
Three quality use of medicines principles
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Necessity - consider CAMs
Suitability - best medicine to treat it
Safety and efficacy
3
Q
Types of ADR’s
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Type A (Attenuated)- follow mechanism of drug just exaggerate Type B (Bizzare)- aren't predictable from mechanism of drug. Allergies
4
Q
APINCH
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Anti-invectives Potassium (and other electrolytes) Insulin Narcotics Chemotherapy Heparin/warfarin
5
Q
Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
A
Responsible for ensuring medicines are safe and available
6
Q
Drug scheduling
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S2 pharmacy only medicine S3 pharmacist only medicine S4 prescription only S5-S7 not human use i.e. Hair dye S8 drugs of addiction S9 prohibited substances
7
Q
Six rights
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Person Drug Dose Route Time Documentation/response
8
Q
Pain assessment
COLDERR
PQRST
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Character Onset Location Duration Exacerbation Relief Radiation
Palliating/provoking Quality Radiation/Region Severity Time
