What are your responsibilities as a nurse in administering medications?
Nursing aspects of administration. The nurse is responsible for interpreting the prescription accurately, recording that the drug has been given and observing the patient’s response. The nurse must also be aware that some drugs, even if stopped before discharge, may still exert an action or cause side-effects.
What are the implications for practice?
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What is one of your main responsibilities in medication administration?
Educate client about medications. Educate client on medication self-administration procedures. Prepare and administer medications, using rights of medication administration. Review pertinent data prior to medication administration (e.g., contraindications, lab results, allergies, potential interactions)
What is the nurse’s role and responsibility in safe medication administration?
Nurse – Determines the correct med, assesses the patient’s ability to self-administer med, determines whether a patient should receive a med at a given time, administers medications correctly, and closely monitors their effects.
What should the nurse monitor with acetaminophen?
Patients’ home use of OTC products containing acetaminophen should be assessed carefully. They should be monitored for signs of liver toxicity when receiving products with acetaminophen, and their liver enzymes should be assessed for elevations.
Are there any side effects of taking urokinase?
Be aware that severe spontaneous bleeding, including fatality from cerebral hemorrhage, has occurred during urokinase treatment. Risk is estimated to be twice that associated with heparin therapy. See streptokinase for additional nursing implications.
What happens at the end of urokinase therapy?
Note: Anticoagulant therapy with heparin is reinstituted at end of urokinase therapy and when thrombin time has decreased to less than twice normal control value (usually within 3–4 h). Be aware that severe spontaneous bleeding, including fatality from cerebral hemorrhage, has occurred during urokinase treatment.
What are the nursing considerations of acetaminophen ( Tylenol )?
antipyretic, non-opioid analgesic What are the Nursing Considerations of Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Nursing Pharmacology Considerations? do not exceed 4g of acetaminophen per day to limit risk for liver, renal, and cardiac damage overdose will lead to hepatotoxicity
Why does urokinase have an anticoagulant effect?
The formation of plasmin is an action that occurs within as well as on the surface of a thrombus or embolus; plasmin has direct fibrinolytic action on a clot. Urokinase also has an anticoagulant effect because its action leads to high plasma levels of fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products.