Unit 2: Pharmacology and the Nurse-Client Relationship

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Unit 2Pharmacology and the Nurse-Client
Relationship

• Chapter 7
• The Nursing Process in Pharmacology

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Nursing Process (Review)

• Assessment
• Nursing diagnosis
• Plan
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Discuss key points of these components relevant
  to medication administration.

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Med Administration Pertinent Assessment Data

• Health history information
• What questions should you ask?
• Physical assessment data
• Lab values
• What baseline labs would you expect to see
  ordered?
• Assessment of medication
• Therapeutic effects
• Side effects
• Client abilities
• Why is assessment so important?

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Med Administration Nursing Diagnosis

• What are the two most common nursing diagnoses
  for medication administration?
• What are factors that can contribute to either
  of these diagnoses?

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Goal Setting

• Based on nursing diagnoses
• Individualized
• Prioritized
• Mutually developed
• Short or long term
• Goals related to medication administration are
  focused on
• Safe and effective administration
• Therapeutic outcome
• Treatment of side effects

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Outcomes

• How do goals differ from outcomes?
• Remember SMART.
• What is the relationship between goals and
  outcomes and evaluation?

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Med Administration Interventions

• Aim
• Return to optimal level of wellness
• Safe and effective medication administration
• Key strategies
• 6 rights
• Correct techniques
• Monitor drug effects
• Client teaching
• What is the importance of client teaching in
  relation to medication administration?

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Med Administration Evaluation

• Overall checkpoint
• Safe, effective medication administration
• Optimal outcomes
• Steps to ensure success
• Nurse
• Assesses for optimal therapeutic effect
• Assesses for minimal adverse actions
• Evaluates effectiveness of teaching