Medications and legalities Flashcards

Safety and administration

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Define medications

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= a medication is a substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, cure, relief or prevention of health. alterations

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What is the quality of use of medicines (QUM)

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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

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RN’s role in medication team

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  • 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
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difference between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

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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

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5
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Define side effects

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= are predictable but unwanted and sometimes unavoidable reactions to medication

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Adverse effects

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= are severe, unintended, unwanted and often unpredictable drug reactions

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toxic effects

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= result from medication overdose or build up of mediation in the blood due to impaired metabolism and excretion

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allergic reactions

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= are unpredictable immune responses to medications and interactions

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adverse drug reaction

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= harmful unintended reaction to medicines that occur at doses normally used for treatment

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medication interactions

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= occur when the drug action is modified by the presence of a certain food or herb or another medication.

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antagonism

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= occurs when the drug effect is decreased by taking the drug with another substance.

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What are three routes of administration

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  1. Oral - sublingual, buccal, oral
  2. Parenteral - subcutaneous, intradermal, intravenous, intramuscular, epidural, intrathecal, intraosseous
  3. Topical - skin, mucous membranes, inhalation
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sublingual medication

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  • Place medication under tongue until tablet dissolves.

* Blood vessels under the tongue are very close to the surface

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enteric coated medication

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• Tablet for oral use coated with material that don’t dissolve in intestine

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Extended/sustained release-coated drug

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  • Place medication under tongue until tablet dissolves.

* Blood vessels under the tongue are very close to the surface

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buccal medication

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  • place between cheek and teeth until dissolved
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Legal/valid orders requirements

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Prior to administering a medication you must check if the medication order meets the legal requirements

  • Signed by prescriber and date of order documented or for Emr entered (legible writing and black pen
  • Full name of recipient (medical record number), medication, dosage, route and frequency
  • Instructions for adequate use

• Detail the number of times the drug may be dispensed or the time between repeated administrations
MEDICATION ERRORS

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What is a medication error?

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= any event that could cause or lead to incorrect administration according to the prescribers orders as when written on the clients chart

19
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List preventable errors

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  • Using the incorrect drug
  • Prescribing errors
  • Administration errors
  • Incorrect dose
20
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What are the 5 rights of medication administration?

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  1. right medication
    • when selecting, removing, returning
  2. Right dose
  3. right patient
  4. right route
  5. right frequency
21
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when are the three checks

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5 rights are performed 3 times

  1. Prior to dispensing the medication
  2. After dispensing the medication
  3. Immediately prior to administering medication to patient
22
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documentation

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  • Reasons for not administrating
  • Reporting errors
  • Recording adverse drug reaction
  • Knowing the correct abbreviations
23
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Scheduled drugs?

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Scheduled drugs - medicine and poison that are in a classification system that the public can gain access to

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what are S4 drugs?

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  • medication can be acquired by strictly prescription only as these drugs are a restricted substance.
  • These medications MUST be stored strictly in a locked, secure cabinet which is attached to the floor or wall of the premises
25
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What are S8 drugs?

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= are controlled drugs as these are drugs of addiction.

  • kept in a locked cabinet attached to the wall of the premises - different compartment to the S4 drugs as they need to be kept separate
  • The nurses need two keys to be able to access these medications.
  • Two nurses must be present when the cabinet is unlocked and witness the administration.
  • There is an inventory record which is used to document each time a controlled drug is taken from the cabinet
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Consent in nursing

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= to authorise, approve or permit

  • procedures, intervention and treatment
  • pt decision

Without consent: touching a pt is battery

  • Legal requirement to gain consent PRRIOR to commencing treatment or procedure
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Why is consent important

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= area of civil law

  • assault, battery, false impriosment