Chapter 2 Medication Safety: professional and legal foundations Answer Key
Chapter 2 Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Activities
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2.2 Drug Regulation Process
Learning activity 1
The nurse should clarify the medication order with the provider before administration because pneumonia is not listed as an indication for levofloxacin in the Black Box Warning. Notification of the provider and the provider’s response should be recorded in the patient’s medical record.
Learning activity 2
- The nurse should educate the patient that medications should never be shared with others. Sharing medications is not only illegal but also dangerous. The nurse should describe the dangers to the patient, including potential drug interactions, dietary interactions, loss of consciousness, or death if inappropriate drugs or dosages are used.
- An impaired nurse may endanger the lives of their patients or harm themselves. It is a nurse’s professional and ethical responsibility to report a colleague’s suspected drug use to their nurse manager or supervisor and, in some states or jurisdictions, to the board of nursing.
- The nurse can give the vaccines based on that they have done an assessment, obtained a consent from the client and used a decision support tool to determine if the vaccine is appropriate for this client at this time.
