Safe Meds An Interactive Guide to Safe Medication Practice

Name: Safe Meds An Interactive Guide to Safe Medication Practice
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ISBN: 9780323027663

ISBN-10: 0323027660

ISBN-13: 9780323027663

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tashiro, Peggy Przybycien

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Addressing the growing problem of medication errors in practice, this groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM provides students with the real-world experience they need to succeed. Safe Meds provides students with a hands-on learning environment that exposes them to medication administration challenges, dosage and solution problems, and issues of safe practice. Students interact with 11 unique patients in a multi-level hospital that exposes them to over 50 of the most commonly recognized medication administration errors in practice today reinforcing safety through critical thinking. Provides a realistic clinical simulation allowing students to work with 11 unique patients Contains over 50 of the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 3/31/2005
Binding: CD-ROM
Pages: 144
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Introductions


Keeping Your Patients Safe


Clarifying that Drug Order


Metric System



The Current


Teaching Strategy


The 5 Rights of Medication Administration


A New Strategy Routes of Administration


Oral Route


Injectable Route


Intravenous Route


Pediatric Dosages


Dangers in Infusion Pumps


Administration of Medications to the Elderly Population



Nervous System


Neurological Assessments


Pain Medications


Verbal and Telephone Orders


Special Meds for Neuro Patients


Drug Labels



Cardiovascular System


Congestive Heart Failure


Distractions in Preparation


Automated Medication Dispensing Devises


Bar Coding



Endocrine System


Hormones


Insulin and Dangers


High-Alert Medications



Reproductive System


Female Reproduction


Pregnancy


Male Reproduction


Too Familiar Versus Too Foreign


Increasing Numbers of New Drugs Chapter 7GI/Nutrition


Disturbances in the GI System


Drugs Used to Treat Ulcers



Chemotherapy


Antineoplastic Drugs


Look-Alike/Sound-Alike Drugs



Anti-Infective


Infection


Anti-Infective Drugs


Safety Issues Involved with Antibiotics


Naming, Shaming, and Blaming