Nursing 2050 Exam 2 Questions Correctly
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What is one of the highest risk areas of nursing practice? - answerMedication administration
What is medication administration? - answerComplex, multidisciplinary process involving
many professionals
Who all is typically involved with medication...
What is one of the highest risk areas of nursing practice? - answer✔✔Medication administration
What is medication administration? - answer✔✔Complex, multidisciplinary process involving
many professionals
Who all is typically involved with medication administration? - answer✔✔Physician/nurse
practitioner
Pharmacist
Registered nurse
Unit clerk or secretary
Pharm tech
When a nurse is given an order to administer medication what should the nurse be aware of? -
answer✔✔Usual dose of ordered medication
Appropriate route of administration
Proper technique and precautions of administration
Approved indications of use of medication
Mechanism of action
Side effects, toxic, and adverse effects
Drug to drug and drug to food interactions
What all should a patient's MAR include? - answer✔✔Patient's full name and date of birth
Date order was given
Name of drug and dosage
Time it is to be given
Route of administration
Signature of licensed provider to assure that all above will be provided
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,There are a lot of new nursing drug resources a nurse can use today. What are they? -
answer✔✔Electronic health records with built in resources
Phone apps
Drug guides
What is the most common type of order given to a nurse? - answer✔✔CPOE
What does CPOE stand for? - answer✔✔Computer Physician Order Entry
Verbal orders can be _______. - answer✔✔In person or on the phone
A nurse receives a verbal order to administer some pain medications to a patient. Upon receiving
the order, what should the nurse do? - answer✔✔Write the order down and read it back
Once a nurse gets a verbal order they need to the physician's signature within ________. -
answer✔✔24 hours
Verbal orders should be_______. - answer✔✔Small and far and near between
What are the three most common type of orders for nurses? - answer✔✔Written orders
CPOE
Verbal orders
In pharmacology class we learned about the five rights of drug administration. For NSG 2050,
we learned about the six rights of drug administration. What are they? - answer✔✔Right drug
Right dose
Right Patient
Right route
Right time
Right documentation
What are the three checks we discussed in NSG 2050? - answer✔✔Check the MAR for ordered
medication
Check written order (MAR) with drug package upon taking it out (preparing it) of cabinet or
drawer
Check MAR before administering to patient once more
When administering medications, a nurse quickly becomes aware of each of the medication
dosages. Upon looking at each dose, what should the nurse always be alert for? -
answer✔✔Partial doses
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, What are the two most common partial dose drug forms? - answer✔✔Tablets
IV
A nurse receives an order to administer 4U of a medication. What is wrong with this order? -
answer✔✔Order should have written "unit"
In order to prevent potential problems, what should the nurse do about a written order for an
international unit? - answer✔✔Write "international unit" (DO NOT WRITE IU)
Instead of using "q" or "qod" for frequency of drug administration, what should be written? -
answer✔✔Write "daily" or "every other day"
A nurse always needs _______ to identify a patient - answer✔✔Two ways
Whenever a nurse gets a patient identifier, they should always _____________. -
answer✔✔Compare it to the MAR
Medications should be given within ________ of given time. - answer✔✔One hour
An unrecorded administration of drugs can lead to what? - answer✔✔Patient receiving a double
dose
What are the two emphasized goals of National Patient Safety? - answer✔✔Improve accuracy of
patient identification
Improve safety of medication administration
What does medication reconciliation do? - answer✔✔Compared what the patient is currently
taking with what the patient should be taking and any newly ordered medications
When should a medication reconciliation be considered or done? - answer✔✔Every admission,
transfer-and discharge (includes prescription, herbal, and OTC)
What are the guidelines for safe medication administration? - answer✔✔Use 6 rights and 3
checks for each medication administration
Always take the MAR into patient room during administration
Review patient allergies
Minimize disruptions
Never give meds from illegible or non-labeled containers
Never give med that has a dose that looks too small or too large or looks different (check it out)
Never leave meds at bedside for any reason
Never pull medications for more than one patient
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