CNUR 202 Unit 1 Exam Questions and Revised Answers All Correct
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CNUR 202
CNUR 202 Unit 1 Exam Questions and Revised Answers All Correct
What is an adverse drug reaction? - Answer- any severe drug reaction that shouldn't be happening
What is an idiosyncratic reaction? - Answer- when an unknown reaction to a drug occurs
What is the medication process - Answer- -...
CNUR 202 Unit 1 Exam Questions
and Revised Answers All Correct
What is an adverse drug reaction? - Answer- any severe drug reaction that shouldn't be
happening
What is an idiosyncratic reaction? - Answer- when an unknown reaction to a drug
occurs
What is the medication process - Answer- - prescribe
- disperse
- administer
- monitor the patient
How does drug therapy work during pregnancy - Answer- - drugs cross placenta
primarily by diffusion
Considerations for older adult with medications - Answer- - take alot of meds
- polypharmacy
- non adherance
- sensory and motor deficits
- inreased incidence of chronic illness
What is ethnopharmacology - Answer- - understanding that different cultures could
affect a drug response
- be knowledgeable of drugs that could have a bed effect for those with different cultural
backgrounds
What does the controlled drugs and substances act do - Answer- provides requirements
for the distribution of narcotics, controlled drugs, and substances of misuse
the letter N are printed on the label of every narcotic drug
What is a medication error - Answer- - a preventable event that leads to inappropriate
medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the HCP's hands
What is a near miss in medication error - Answer- - a near miss is when circumstances
were leading up to a medication error, but you caught it early
Ways to prevent medication errors - Answer- - 10 rights
, - 3 checks
- make sure you can understand prescribers orders
- follow faculty policies
How to respond to medication errors - Answer- - document with factual information
- important to observe any changes in patient's physical or mental status, this is ongoing
What is medication reconciliation? - Answer- = procedure to prevent Med Errors
- process of ongoing assessment and updating of every patient's list of meds throughout
the health care process AND proper communication of such info to both patient and
HCP
5 steps to medication reconciliation - Answer- 1. develop a list of current medications
2. develop a list of medication to be prescribed
3. compare the medication on the two lists
4. make clinical decisions based on the comparison
5. communicate the new list ot appropriate caregivers and to the patient
How to prevent medication errors - Answer- - Assessment
- Two patient identifiers on & from patient
- Do not administer if you did not draw up or prepare yourself.
- Minimize verbal or telephone orders.
- Students cannot take a telephone order
- Avoid abbreviations.
- Never assume anything about items not specified in a drug order (e.g., route).
- Do not hesitate to question a medication order for any reason when in doubt.
- Do not try to decipher illegibly written orders; contact the prescriber for clarification.
What is a time-critical scheduled medication - Answer- - administer at exact time when
necessary
What is a non-time critical scheduled medication - Answer- - administer an hour before
or after meals
- still try to give it on time
Chemical name of a drug - Answer- - describes the drug's chemical composition and
molecular structure
Generic Name - Answer- Official name of a drug
Trade Name - Answer- registered trademark; use of name is restricted by the
manufacturer
What's pharmacokinetics - Answer- what the body does to the drug
- how the drug moves through the body by absorption, distrubution, metabolized, and
excreted
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