Exam 1: Medication Errors: Improving Practices and Patient Safety

Which of the following actions should the nurse perform to administer Reclast (zoledronic acid)?

A nurse in an outpatient clinic receives a call from a patient who reports having had symptoms of the flu for the past 4 days.The patient is seeking an appointment with the physician and wants,"the medication that treats the flu [Tamiflu (oseltamivir)]." Which of the following responses by the nurse is best?

Which of the following laboratory values must be closely monitored when taking amiodarone? Select all that apply.

While reviewing medications to be provided by a student nurse,the instructor notes a patient is scheduled to take famciclovir 500 mg orally every 8 hr.The instructor suspects the patient most likely has which of the following diagnoses?

The nurse is providing care to a 9-year-old boy admitted with a broken tibia.The child takes Adderall XR 20 mg/day.The physician has prescribed Meperidine 25 mg IM every 4 hr as needed for pain.Which of the following actions by the nurse is best?

MATCHING Match the instructions for using an inhaler in the following section with the number they should occur in. -Step 2

The nurse is counseling the parent of a 14-year-old patient with asthma who is to initiate maintenance therapy with Singulair (montelukast).Which of the following should the nurse include in the teaching?

A nurse in the labor and delivery unit is caring for a patient who is receiving Marcaine (bupivicaine)epidural anesthesia.Which of the following symptoms would be recognized as indicative of systemic toxicity?

The nurse is providing care for a patient who is to take Tagamet (cimetidine)400 mg BID upon discharge.Which of the following statements should the nurse include in the patient's teaching? Select all that apply.

The nurse prepares to provide Colcrys (colchicine)to a patient.The nurse should assess which of the following prior to administration of the medication?

While reviewing a patient's medications for the day,the nurse notes the patient is prescribed Creon (pancrelipase)three times daily.Which of the following actions by the nurse is best?

A nurse on the cardiac unit is providing care to a 67-year-old patient who has recently been started on BiDil (hydralazine/isosorbide dinitrate)1 tablet orally three times daily.The patient informs the nurse that he has a headache and rates his headache pain as 4 on a scale of 1-10.Which of the following actions by the nurse is best?

While responding to a rapid response called on the cardiac step-down unit,the nurse from intensive care observes the unit nurse massaging a patient's neck and instructing the patient to bear down.Which of the following medications will most likely be used if the patient's pulse does not return to normal?

MATCHING Match the instructions for using an inhaler in the following section with the number they should occur in. -Step 1

While counseling a patient who takes Dulcolax (bisacodyl)for constipation,the nurse recognizes that further teaching is required by which of the following statements?

Which laboratory value should be monitored during pharmacological therapy of Januvia (sitagliptin)?

The nurse is preparing to infuse Keflex (cephalexin)1 g in 50 mL over 30 min.To infuse 50 mL of fluid over 30 min,the pump should be set at __________________mL/hr (= hourly rate).

A public health nurse is administering the first dose of Gardasil (human papillomavirus quadrivalent vaccine)to a teenage girl.What action should the nurse take following the administration of this medication?

The nurse is caring for an 82-year-old woman with superior vena cava syndrome due to a clot formed around the patient's implanted port.The patient is on a heparin drip at 12 units/hr.Which of the following laboratory values will be used to titrate the infusion rate?

Which of the following are classified as potassium-sparing diuretics? Select all that apply.