NUR5011 Study Guide - Final Guide: Active Listening, Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, Angiotensin

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Identify the medico-legal aspects of clinical documentation: contemporaneous, signed, written by administering professional, objective, develop an understanding of isbar style communication. Pharmacology week 1b: define selected terms related to the administration of medications, demonstrate the legal aspects of administering medications, understand the various routes of medication administration and how to administer correctly in accord with a medication order. List seven essential steps to follow when administering medication: right patient, right drug, right route, right time, right dose, right documentation, right action, right form, right response. Identify physiological factors and individual variables affecting medication action. When bound to plasma proteins in bloodstream does not have an effect. State systems of measurement that are used in the administration of medication. S severity: t timing, e temperature. Immunocompromised: elderly/neonates, obese, people with existing healthcare problems. Inspection rate, regularity, position, symmetry, accessory muscle, cyanosis, chest wall shape, clubbed nails, nasal flaring. Auscultation wheeze, crackles (pneumonia/cardiac failure), air trapping (asthma), stridor (upper airway obstruction)