Non-pharmacological Ways to Treat Diabetes Assignment Help
Study Guide
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- Vitamins commonly given to a patient who is an alcoholic.
- How to prepare and draw up insulin
- Vitamins A, D, E & K – therapeutic use
- Know about Metformin effects on blood glucose.
- Drug interactions in older patients
- Nursing implications when giving digoxin.
- Effectiveness of ace inhibitors in African Americans
- Type of medications patients sent home with DVT prophylaxis.
- Nursing priorities when caring for a postoperative patient receiving opioids.
- Administration of potassium chloride & assessment of IV site
- What is the Beer’s list and what is it used for?
- Medication given to a patient with a traumatic head injury.
- Effects of glucocorticoids on patients with diabetes
- Antidote for opioids
- Know about Acetaminophen.
- Adverse effects of nitroglycerin
- Where medications are excreted and metabolized
- Routes medications are given and absorptions.
- Handling of nitroglycerin paste
- Administration of insulin, routes, site rotation, and types of syringes used to administer insulin.
- Labs to monitor for furosemide.
- Antidote for anticoagulants, antiplatelet, insulin overdose
- How to take NSAIDS
- Usual sites of injection for administering insulin
- Medications given for constipation (fast acting, slower acting)
- How to take bulk-forming laxatives
- Treatment for H. pylori
- Know about sucralfate- how/what does it do to ulcers?
- Laxatives and pregnancy
- How beta-blockers work
- Major adverse effects of sulfonylureas
- How to store insulin/insulin pin
- Know about NPH and how to prepare and administer.
- What labs should be monitored when administering heparin
- Factors that contribute to medication non-compliance in the older adult.
- Age related factor that can alter effects of medications in the older adult.
- What lab level (electrolyte) does lactulose affect?
- Which insulins can be administered intravenously?
- Why are older patients prescribed multiple medications
- Factors that alter drug distribution in older people
- How to help an older patient who forgets to take their medications have therapeutic levels of medication in their system
- Ferrous sulfate and absorption-which medication helps to absorb
- Adverse effects of Vitamin E
- When to discontinue Ginkgo Biloba
- Adverse effects of metoclopramide
- Mixing of insulin
- Generic names, Brand names
- Therapeutic use for antiemetics
- Adverse effects of vitamin K
- Side effects of ace inhibitors
- Non-pharmacological ways to treat diabetes