Exam 21: Oral and Topical Medications

How should the nurse position the patient to administer nose drops to the maxillary sinus?

What should the nurse do to assist a patient who is having difficulty swallowing tablets?

A patient is experiencing a systemic effect from eyedrops.Which assessment finding by the nurse is indicative of this?

When preparing to administer medication via a nasogastric tube, the nurse aspirates 275 mL of gastric residual.What is the first action the nurse should take?

The patient is unable to sit upright for medication administration.The nurse should assist the patient to which position to decrease the risk for aspiration?

The nurse is preparing to administer medications to a patient with an enteral tube.The nurse can safely give the medications through which types of enteral tube? (Select all that apply.)

The patient is receiving vaginal suppositories for a vaginal infection.Which assessment finding by the nurse indicates a desired outcome of the treatment?

The nurse is preparing a medication for a small child.The medication comes in pill or liquid form, but the liquid preparation has a bitter taste.Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?

The nurse is administering a beta-adrenergic medication via a small-volume nebulizer.Which assessment finding requires the nurse to withhold the medication immediately?

The nurse receives orders on several patients for oral medications.The nurse will question the order on patients with which conditions? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is preparing to administer a rectal suppository to an adult patient.Which action should be taken by the nurse?

The nurse is preparing to administer a rectal suppository to a patient.The patient should be assisted to which position for insertion of the rectal suppository?

The patient is to receive three different medications via a nasogastric tube.What is the total amount of water the nurse should prepare to administer?

Handheld devices that disperse medications through an aerosol spray or mist to penetrate lung airways are known as ___________.

Medications in the form of drops or ointments will have the word ________________ on the container to identify them as eye medications.

The nurse is applying a new nitroglycerin transdermal patch.Which action by the nurse is appropriate?

The nurse is teaching a patient how to use a metered-dose inhaler without a spacer.Which action by the patient demonstrates correct use of the device?

The nurse is preparing oral medications for administration.Which action by the nurse is appropriate?

Handheld devices that deliver inhaled medication in a fine powder to penetrate lung airways are known as ___________.