What are the top 5 medications YOU administer daily?

[northmississippi]

I want to read about medications that are nornally given by nurses, what do you normally deal with on your floor? I'm hoping to see a common drug list, but who knows...

Thanks.

[jimkusters]

Like all the other Psych nurses out there, my top 5 would have to be. Ativan, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Klonopin, and Depakote.

Although we give more common drugs too, like Novolog Insulin, Metformin, ASA, Propranolol....

[cbcle]

Percocet, Motrin, Tyleon#3, Senna, Colace

Mother/Baby

[franciscangypsy]

Synthroid, Metoprolol, Lovenox, nitropaste, Simvastatin are probably the top 5 non-insulin meds we give on my Medical Telemetry floor. There are other favorites, but these are probably the top ones we give that it seems that EVERYONE gets.

[tiroka03, LPN]

Long term unit nights

Insulin, Tylenol, Prilosec, Lortab, Synthroid

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

Morphine, Vanco, Caffeine, Iron, Dopa

[CloudySue]

Here's from when I worked on an Alzheimers/Dementia unit:

Ativan, Ativan, Ativan, Ativan, Ativan! (ok, that's just one)

metoprolol

Lasix

Ultram

omaprazole

[Weebee, LVN]

:smokin:Dilaudid, Dilaudid, Dilaudid, Dilaudid, and then there is Dilaudid:smokin:

[Orange Tree]

vancomycin, zosyn, dilaudid, mophine, narco

[PureLifeRN]

Lidocaine, marcaine, bacitracin ointment, polymixin irrigation... handed to the surgeon who administers it. Great to be an OR nurse!

[Perpetual Student]

I work in our PACU. I give the following just about every shift.

1. Fentanyl

2. Hydromorphone

3. Zofran

4. Morphine

5. Cefazolin

[belgarion]

Eighty percent of our patients are swingbeds. Docusate, zocor, coumadin, zantac, lortab (all strengths). Also albuterol and atrovent nebs. We don't have RTs on nghts.

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

Excluding pain meds, I'd have to say: Colace, Senna, Zocor, Metoprolol and Calcium+D. Oxycodone is probably our most common narc. Sub-acute rehab.