Question

1. Define therapeutic, side, adverse, and toxic effects.

2. Identify sites for administering subcutaneous medications

3. Briefly explain the common types of medication orders: verbal, prn, stat, and single (one-time).

4. Patient is to receive 250 mL in 2 hours. What is the infusion rate? (mL per hour)

5. The order is 2, 000 mL D5W IV @ 125 mL/hour. Drop factor 10 gtt/mL. What is the flow rate? (gtt/min).

6. 30  kg= ______lb

Answer 1

Ans)1 Therapeutic effect:

- Refers to the responses(s) after a treatment of any kind, the results of which are judged to be useful or favorable.

Side effect:

- The unpleasant effect that a drug may have in addition to its useful effects.

Adverse effect:

- An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as surgery.

Toxic effect:

- An adverse effect of a drug produced by anexaggeration of the effect that produces the theraputic response.

2) Subcutaneous means pertaining to below or under the skin.

Sites for administering a subcutaneous injections are:

- Posterior upper arm, lateral upper arm, anterolateral thigh, upper back, flank, lower back at top of buttocks.

3) Verbal- These medication orders includes all telephone and face-to-face patient care orders.

Prn- Medication administration orders when necessary for symptomatic management.

Stat- Medication administration order urgently or immediately.

Single ( one time)- Medication administration order at once at specified time.

4) Infusion rate= Total amount to be Infused ÷ total duration of hours

= 250÷ 2 = 125 ml/hr

So, Infusion rate will be 125 ml/hr.