Exam 1: Medication Errors: Improving Practices and Patient Safety

The nurse is providing care for a patient who has new orders to start Pacerone (amiodarone)po 400 mg BID.Which of the following orders should the nurse anticipate? Select all that apply.

The nurse is working with a client who is undergoing a bowel prep prior to a scheduled colonoscopy.Which of the following medications should the nurse expect to provide?

The nurse is talking to a friend who recently revealed that she is 6 weeks pregnant.The woman says,"The doctor told me to take prenatal vitamins that have folic acid in them;what is that for?" Which of the following is the best response by the nurse?

The nurse is providing care for a 59-year-old patient with a long-term history of asthma for an acute exacerbation.The client is started on an infusion of aminophylline.Which of the following orders would the nurse expect to be written?

A patient with asthma has multiple inhalants prescribed including Ventolin (albuterol),Pulmicort Flexhaler (budesonide),and Atrovent (ipratropium).The nurse verifies teaching is effective if which of the following is observed?

Place the following steps in the correct order for the nurse to provide Prevacid (lansoprazole)15 mg capsule qd through an NG tube.

The nurse receives new orders to start clindamycin 25 mg/kg/day in four equal intravenous doses every 6 hr to a child who weighs 20 kg.The dose of medication the nurse should provide with each administration is ___________________mg.

While providing care for a patient who takes Januvia (sitagliptin),the nurse should be most concerned by which of the following findings?

The nurse is caring for a patient taking Nexium (esomeprazole).The nurse knows teaching has been effective by which of the following statements? Select all that apply.

The nurse recognizes that Celexa (citalopram)may be prescribed for which of the following patients?

While reviewing medications for a patient with multiple sclerosis,the student nurse recognizes that Lioresal (baclofen)is given for which the following symptoms?

The nurse is caring for a patient who has been started on Corgard (nadolol).Which of the following assessment findings would be most concerning to the nurse?

A nurse working in a physician's office is collecting history information from a patient who reports experiencing erectile dysfunction and is seeking treatment with Levitra (vardenafil).This medication would be contraindicated if the patient is currently taking which of the following?

The nurse is working with a patient who has elevated triglyceride levels despite dietary changes.The physician has ordered TriLipix (fenofibric acid)135 mg per day.Which of the following statements should the nurse include in the teaching?

A nurse passing medications at the nursing home is supposed to provide Cardizem (diltiazem)90 mg po TID.The pharmacy stocks 60 mg tablets.The nurse should provide ____________________ tablets.

A young woman reports to the emergency department with frank vaginal bleeding and a stated history of being 10 wk pregnant.Ultrasound confirms an incomplete miscarriage,and the woman is scheduled for a dilatation and curettage.Which of the following medications should the nurse anticipate being provided after the surgical procedure?

The nurse is caring for a patient in the intensive care unit.The patient is receiving Osmitrol (mannitol)0.5 g/kg infused over 60 min.Which of the following would indicate an effective response to the treatment?

While providing peri-care for a patient receiving multiple intravenous antibiotics,the nurse notes that the patient's groin folds and peri-area are red,inflamed,and excoriated and that whitish discharge is noted from the vagina.When contacting the physician to report the patient's condition,which of the following medications would the nurse anticipate being ordered?

The nurse is providing Serevent Diskus (salmeterol)to a patient on the medical unit who has a long-term history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.The nurse would intervene if which of the following were observed?

A nurse caring for a patient who takes Tofranil (imipramine)150 mg orally at bedtime would be most concerned by which of the following observations?