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Patho/Pharmacology HESI Questions and Answers Already Passed The Six Rights of Medication Administration ✔✔Drug, Patient, Dose, Route, Time, Documentation When do you draw the Peak? ✔✔Draw... 1 hr after IM injection and 30 mins after completion of IV When do you draw the Trough? ✔✔Draw just prior to the next dose (when using divided daily doses) Draw 1 hour before next dose (when using single dose) Nitroglycerin/Nitrates: Mechanism of Action ✔✔Vasodilation Nitroglycerin/Nitrates: Indications ✔✔Used for angina/ischemic heart conditions. Nitroglycerin/Nitrates: Administration ✔✔Can be given in Patch, Ointment and Sublingual forms. Nitroglycerin/Nitrates: Adverse Effects ✔✔Headache, Reflex tachycardia, and Orthostatic hypotension. Nitroglycerin/Nitrates: Health Teaching ✔✔Can be given up to 3 doses sublingually every 5 minutes When there is still a presence of pain call 911, do not drive to hospital. Montelukast (Singulair): Mechanism of Action ✔✔Blocks(antagonizes) leukotrienes --> decrease inflammatory response. Montelukast (Singulair): Indications ✔✔Prophylaxis and long-term treatment of asthma and allergic rhinitis. *NOT FOR ACUTE ATTACKS* Montelukast (Singulair): Administration ✔✔Take on empty stomach Takes 1-2 weeks to work (for maintenence therapy not quick relief) Take once a day at the evening *Monitor liver function & for s/sx of hepatotoxicity. Montelukast (Singulair): Adverse effects ✔✔Suicidal thoughts, suicide, & seizures. Oxycodone(Percocet): Mechanism of Action ✔✔Inhibits ascending p [Show More]

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