Crosswords

One of the five rights of medication administration

Dose

A way to measure Hepatitis B Vaccine (Engerix-B) efficacy

Titers

Provides unconscious control of cardiac and smooth muscle and exocrine and endocrine glands

ANS

Which type of warning is a way of preventing or reducing harm is to alert nurses and clients to potential severe medication side effects?

Black Box Warning 

Neurotransmitter that does not influence target organs of the SNS

Acetylcholine 

Converting a drug to a form more easily removed from the body

Metabolism

Movement of a drug from its site of administration to circulating body fluids

Absorption

Drugs that inhibit the parasympathetic nervous system

Anticholinergics 

Transport of medication throughout the body

Distribution

Monitoring the patient for therapeutic and adverse effects is a nursing _______

Responsibility 

The nervous system that activates under stress

Sympathetic

Achieved through many feedback loops controlled by the brain

Homeostasis

Which medication administration route has the fastest onset of action?

Intravenous

Removal of a drug from the body

Excretion

Which anti-inflammatory medication should the nurse prepare to administer to the patient suffering myocardial infarction?

Asprin

Ibuprofen blocks this inflammatory precursor

COX

Cyclosporine is used to prevent ______

Transplant Rejection 

High dose steroids will influence blood ______

Glucose 

An adverse effect that the client should report to the healthcare provider?

Urinary Hesitancy 

The most severe adverse effect related to allopurinol

Rash

A major adverse effect of cyclosporine would reduce ______

Urine Output 

Which nutritional compound is inhibited by methotrexate?

Folic Acid 

Blocks the action of opioids at their receptor sites

Narcan

During lecture I mentioned that ibuprofen differs from aspirin in its ability to cause coagulopathy. What emergent condition could result in a patient that develops coagulopathy?

Stroke

Would the nurse recommend that a patient with fever cover with blankets after administering IV Tylenol?

No

The nurse should ensure this equipment is accessible before administering sumatriptan for the first time

Resuscitation

Cellular channels affected by valproic acid (Depakote, Depakene)

Sodium

Indication for treating with sumatriptan (Imitrex)

Migraine

Morphine inhibits patient ______ (think vital signs)

Respirations 

Tylenol antidote

N-acetylcysteine

Does cannabis inhibit multiple sclerosis disease progression?

No

In pediatric patients, aspirin is associated with which syndrome when taken during viral infections?

Reye

For a patient that drinks alcohol daily and reports taking more than 2 g of Tylenol, which laboratory value is priority for the nurse to assess?

ALT