Skills Lab Drug Scenarios ???
For the drugs that we need to be familiar with, when it says "Normal dose and rate" do we need to know the norms for each therapeutic action of the drug?
For instance with Acetylsalicylic acid - it reduces fever and inflammation, and it's an analgesic...do we need to know the normal does for each of the three uses and for adult and child?
If anyone can shed some light here I would love it!
Thanks,
-Lisa
1 comment:
Lisa, what we did with the scenarios, was this. Julie had patient cards made up with patients of varying ages and medical problems. Half of us acted out the the role of the patient and the others were the nurses. None of the patients were children. Julie then gave report to all of so fast that we had a hard time even catching half of it. we then had to look in on our patients assess them and get the meds. Hint, get to the med cart as fast as you can or you will get behind. ( you can always hold a med after you assess your patient and decide it is not in their best interest to give it, like if their systolic BP is less than 90. If they gave you a sheet of meds ahead of time it is good to at least write down the page numbers where they can be found in your drug book. Better yet, look them up ahead of time and know what they are. It depends on what you are giving the med for and the age of the person for the ranges, We had to go to the med cart, draw up insulin or whatever and show Julie, and have all of the other meds in the med cups and labeled. We then had to take them to her and tell her what we were giving them for, how they worked, what are the side affects, nursing precautions(know when the last dose of pain med was given, hold if SBP less than 90, watch for bleeding, monitor the hematacrit and hemaglobin levels, do not aspirate, etc) and normal dose range.
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