Pharmacology Nurse 3050 Abram’s Clinical Drug Therapy Chapter 3
Medication Administration and Nursing Process of Drug Therapy
Five Rights of Medication -Correct Answer ✅Right drug, right dose, right
patient, right route, right time.
Nursing Process -Correct Answer ✅The systemic way of gathering and using
info to plan individualized care.
Is necessary to provide optimal care.
A physician writes an order using the abbreviation MS. The order states “MS
10 mg IV push every 6 hours as needed for pain.” According to The Joint
Commission’s “Do Not Use” list, what is the potential problem in this order?
-Correct Answer ✅The drug could be magnesium sulfate, or morphine
sulfate.
A prescriber has written an order for an oral medication to a patient
following a cerebrovascular accident (stroke). Prior to administering the
medication, which of the following nursing interventions is most important?
-Assessing the patient’s blood pressure and pulse.
Pharmacology Nurse 3050 Abram’s Clinical Drug Therapy Chapter 3
Medication Administration and Nursing Process of Drug Therapy
-Assessing the patient’s ability to swallow. -Correct Answer ✅”Assessing the
patient’s ability to swallow.”
A client who has had a cerebrovascular accident can suffer from dysphagia,
the inability to swallow. Te nurse must assess the client’s ability to swallow
prior to administering an oral medication. If the client has dysphagia and the
medication is administered, the client is at risk for aspiration and
pneumonia.
When Giving Medications, What Is The Nurse Legally Responsible For? –
Correct Answer ✅Safe and accurate administration. The nurse may be held
liable for not giving a drug, for giving the wrong drug, or for giving the wrong
dose.
What Should A Nurse Do If A Drug Seems Unsafe, But The Physician States
That It Is? -Correct Answer ✅The nurse should refuse to give the drug —
even if the doctor wrote an erroneous order for the medication, the nurse is
not excused from legal liability for giving the drug.
Specific Drugs Associated With ADE’s -Correct Answer ✅Insulin, heparin,
and warfarin.
Pharmacology Nurse 3050 Abram’s Clinical Drug Therapy Chapter 3
Medication Administration and Nursing Process of Drug Therapy
ADE’s -Correct Answer ✅Adverse drug events.
NCCMERP Index for Categorizing Medication Errors -Correct Answer ✅Index
that ranks from A to I in the severity of a medication error.
Rank A are circumstances that may cause errors, Rank I are errors that have
caused patient death.
A prescriber has written an order for levothyroxine sodium 50 mg per day by
mouth. The nurse knows that the standard dose is 50 mcg. What action
should the nurse take?
-Call the prescriber and question the order.
-Administer 50 mcg instead.
-Consult the pharmacist about the order.