Medications and legalities Flashcards
Safety and administration
Define medications
= a medication is a substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, cure, relief or prevention of health. alterations
What is the quality of use of medicines (QUM)
Wise: ensuring the best possible plan is chosen
Necessary: ensuring that when medicines are needed they are carefully selected, managed, monitored and reviewed
Safe and effectiveL minimising misuse, overuse and underuse of medicines while ensuring that medicines achieve the goals
RN’s role in medication team
- when administering they are accountable for knowing the med prescribed, their therapeutic and non-therapeutic effects and the patients need for medication
- provide education to patient and family about meds
- assess patients need for medication
- correctly administers medication
difference between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
pharmacokinetics = the study of how a medication enters the body, moves though the body and ultimately leaves the body
Pharmacodynamics = the process in which medication interacts with the body’s cells to produce biological response
Define side effects
= are predictable but unwanted and sometimes unavoidable reactions to medication
Adverse effects
= are severe, unintended, unwanted and often unpredictable drug reactions
toxic effects
= result from medication overdose or build up of mediation in the blood due to impaired metabolism and excretion
allergic reactions
= are unpredictable immune responses to medications and interactions
adverse drug reaction
= harmful unintended reaction to medicines that occur at doses normally used for treatment
medication interactions
= occur when the drug action is modified by the presence of a certain food or herb or another medication.
antagonism
= occurs when the drug effect is decreased by taking the drug with another substance.
What are three routes of administration
- Oral - sublingual, buccal, oral
- Parenteral - subcutaneous, intradermal, intravenous, intramuscular, epidural, intrathecal, intraosseous
- Topical - skin, mucous membranes, inhalation
sublingual medication
- Place medication under tongue until tablet dissolves.
* Blood vessels under the tongue are very close to the surface
enteric coated medication
• Tablet for oral use coated with material that don’t dissolve in intestine
Extended/sustained release-coated drug
- Place medication under tongue until tablet dissolves.
* Blood vessels under the tongue are very close to the surface