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What period of time should you take to administer digoxin iv infusion?
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Why do you take an apical pulse for people on digoxin?
You need to accurately check the heart rate. Digoxin can lower the heart rate to dangerous levels. You should not administer digoxin when pulse rate is already below 60.
Where can get a iv?
A better question might be do I need an IV. If you know that you require an IV but do not know where to get one; then you should go to a hospital or urgent care center. Doctors' offices and infusion clinics can also administer IV medication; if they have prescribed you such a drug.
Should the piggyback IV be hung higher or lower than the primary infusion bag?
It should be hung higher than the primary infusion bag.
When should you administer humalog?
do you administer humalog 5 to 10 minutes prior to meal
Should a nurse administer Oxygen if it is not prescribed?
No, if there is not an order given for oxygen or a protocol a nurse may not administer it.
What are the Nursing considerations for digoxin?
1. Assess the patient's response to the digoxin by evaluating relief of symptoms such as dyspnea, orthopnea, crackles, hepatomegaly, and peripheral edema. 2. Monitor the patient for factors that increase the risk of toxicity: a. Decreased potassium level b. Use of meds that enhance the effects of digoxin such as oral antibiotics and cardiac drugs that slow AV conduction and slow heart rate c. Impaired renal function especially in patients 65 years and older 3. Before administering the drug, assess the patient's apical heart rate. If it below 60, the drug should be held. More importantly assess the PR interval for AV conduction blockage. 4. Monitor for GI side effects 5. Monitor for neurologic side effects. A classic symptom of digoxin toxicity is a yellow halo effect seen by the patient.
Who should do the anointing?
The parish priest should administer anointing of the sick.
What is digitalis or a drug called digoxin?
Digitalis has got digoxin and digitoxin in the extract of the plant Digitalis lanata. Digitoxin has got very long half life and should not be used in therapeutics. Digoxin is drug of therapeutic value. It is very good drug for congestive heart failure. Digoxin has very unique mode of action. It takes less oxygen for heart to do the same amount of work. Alternately, your heart work more with the same amount of oxygen, when on digoxin. You may give the loading dose of two tablets of 0.25 mg. Fallowed by one after say twelve hours. Then 3/4 tablet daily after 24 hours. When there is no urgency, you should give 3/4 tablet daily, from the begining. You may need to give potassium supplement in some, specially when the patient is taking no food for a day or two. With signs of toxic effects, you should stop the drug. The rule of thumb is 'Nausea'. When the patient feels like vomiting, he may be getting overdose of digoxin. Otherwise, there may be hypokalemia or low level of potassium. Most common cause for the same is no food intake or loose motion. If you continue to give digoxin, patient will go for vomiting. Natures way to get rid of digoxin. if you continue to give digoxin, you have serious side effects, like digoxin induced cardiac arrhythmias.
How many auto injections should you administer?
1
How do you administer Oxytocin injection?
Read the label on the bottle. It should say that you have to administer it intramuscularly (IM) via needle and syringe.
If your ferritin level is less than 3 what should you do?
Go to a hematologist for an iron infusion.
How should the drip chamber be set up to deliver parenteral products?
The drip chamber should be below the infusion bag.
