Medications and Labs

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I am just about to start my last semester of nursing school and one of the things I am nervous about is the medications and what specific labs to look for. If you can please share any methods that have helped you I would appreciate it. Thank you!!!!:nurse:

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Specializes in Allergy and Immunology.

Please clarify are you talking about for the NCLEX or when your caring for your patients in last clinicals?

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Caring for the patients in clinicals

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Usually the computers on the floor have a full drug database that you can look up information on..usually WAY more than you'd ever wanna know about any specific medication. We also had to pre-lab and fill all that drug information out the night before so that we knew that stuff before we took that patient. You could also get one of those little pocket-sized drug books...if all else fails, ask the nurse haha :up:

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think about pathophys...A lot of the antihypertensives affect potassium and sodium levels

diuretics can bump up bg levels

antipsychotics can affect bg levels

where are the drugs metabolized? Liver-look at LFTs, Kidneys-electrolytes...

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