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Pharm chapter 4
Nursing Process in Drug Therapy and patient safety
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assessment | The first step in Nursing Process. Information gathering about curennt health status and also evaluation of history and physical examination. |
| Evaluation | Part of the nursing process; determining the effects of the interventions used for patients and leads to further assesments and intervention |
| Implementation | Actions taken to meet a patient's needs such as drug admin, comfort measures, patient/fmaily education |
| Nursing | the art of nuturing of the sick combined with the science application of chemistry, biology, nutrition to the particular clinical situation |
| Nursing Diagnosis | Statment of an actual of potential problem based on the assessments of a particular clinincal situation. This leads to clinincal interventions |
| Nursing Process | The decision making and problem solving process used to provide efficient nursing care. it invovles gathering informaiton, formulating a nurse diagnosis statement, interventions and evaluations |
| Assessment Includes the following | Pt History: Chronic conditns, drug use, allergies, level of education, level of understanding of disease and therpay, social supports, financial supportsm patterns of health care, Physical Exam: Weight, Age, Physical parameters related to the disease |
| Nursing Diganosis | A statement of the patient's status from a nurisng perspective |
| Assement involves | systematic, organized collection of data on the patient. |
| When does assessment end | It never ends because the patient is in a dynamic state, continously adjusting to physical, emotional and environmental influences |
| Patient History is important to drug therapy because | knowledge of patient histroy before beginning drug therapy will help promote safe and effective use of drug |
| What are comfort measure | A patient is most likely to be compliant in taking his drugs if the drugn regime is not too uncomfortable or overwhelming |
| Placebo Effect | The anticipation that adru will be helpful |
| Patient taking diuretics.. | should be ready to be near toilet facilties |
| Biphosphonates Theraphy | Take drug frist thing in the morn on an empty stomach. Stay upright for 30 mins after medication |
| The 8 Rights of Medication Administration | Right Patient Right Drug Right DOsage Right Route Right Time Right Documnetation Right to refuse right to know |
| What are a patient role in drug administration therapy | Keep a written list of medication you are taking Know the use of each med and what it is used to treat Read labels of meds and follow direction Store drugs away from kids and pets Speak up |
| How are mediacation errors reported | They are reported in an institutional level and also on a national level |
| US Pharmacopeia | National medication error reporting are handled by USP for instance in medication that mayhave similar names |
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