Pharmacology and the Nursing Process
Assignment 1
1. Define Adverse Effect:
A drug effect that is more severe than expected and has the potential to damage tissue or
cause serious health problems. It may also be called adverse effect, toxic effect, or toxicity and
usually requires an intervention by the prescriber.
2. Define contraindication:
It’s a health-related reason for not giving a specific drug to a patient or a group of patients.
3. Define expected side effects:
Unintended but not unusual effects that occur when taking the drug.
4. Define evaluation:
The process of determining the right response looking at what happens to the patient when
the nursing care plan is put into action. It is an appraisal of the treatment effectiveness.
5. Define objective data:
Information that can be seen, heard, felt, or measured by someone other than the patient.
6. Define subjective data:
Reports of what the patient says he or she is feeling or thinks.
7. Define therapeutic effect:
The intended action of the drug, also known as a drug’s beneficial outcome.
LVN’s Role and the Nursing Process
1. What does the nursing process provide for the nurse?
A system that guides the nurse’s work in a logical way.
2. The nursing process consists of what?
Assessing, Diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating.
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, Pharmacology and the Nursing Process
Assignment 1
Assessment:
1. Assessment is:
The process that helps you get information about the client and the client’s problem that
includes anything that may influence the choice of drug to be given to the client. It involves
looking and listening carefully.
2. What does assessment involve?
It involves looking and listening carefully.
3. Who performs the first or initial full assessment?
The Registered Nurse.
4. Why is the assessment step of the nursing process important?
Because it gives you the initial information as you begin to make a record for developing the
plan of care.
5. How can you obtain information during your assessment of the client?
By talking to the patient, checking the patient closely for signs or symptoms of illness, viewing
past medical records, or reviewing information the patient may bring with him or her.
6. Describe subjective data
Obtained through questioning and its information that cannot be measured or seen. They are
reports of what the patient says he or she is feeling or thinking.
7. When is information considered to be subjective?
When you have to rely on the patient’s word, or if their symptoms cannot be felt by anyone
other than the patient.
8. List other examples of subjective data that you may learn about from the client interview:
The chief problem according to the patient (in the patient’s word).
The patient’s belief about what caused the problem.
The patient’s description about what relieves the problem.
The patient’s report of the severity of the problem.
9. What is objective data?
Data that can be seen, heard, felt, or measured by someone other than the patient.
K Rowe LVN Page 2 of 11 Rev: Nov. 2018
Assignment 1
1. Define Adverse Effect:
A drug effect that is more severe than expected and has the potential to damage tissue or
cause serious health problems. It may also be called adverse effect, toxic effect, or toxicity and
usually requires an intervention by the prescriber.
2. Define contraindication:
It’s a health-related reason for not giving a specific drug to a patient or a group of patients.
3. Define expected side effects:
Unintended but not unusual effects that occur when taking the drug.
4. Define evaluation:
The process of determining the right response looking at what happens to the patient when
the nursing care plan is put into action. It is an appraisal of the treatment effectiveness.
5. Define objective data:
Information that can be seen, heard, felt, or measured by someone other than the patient.
6. Define subjective data:
Reports of what the patient says he or she is feeling or thinks.
7. Define therapeutic effect:
The intended action of the drug, also known as a drug’s beneficial outcome.
LVN’s Role and the Nursing Process
1. What does the nursing process provide for the nurse?
A system that guides the nurse’s work in a logical way.
2. The nursing process consists of what?
Assessing, Diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating.
K Rowe LVN Page 1 of 11 Rev: Nov. 2018
, Pharmacology and the Nursing Process
Assignment 1
Assessment:
1. Assessment is:
The process that helps you get information about the client and the client’s problem that
includes anything that may influence the choice of drug to be given to the client. It involves
looking and listening carefully.
2. What does assessment involve?
It involves looking and listening carefully.
3. Who performs the first or initial full assessment?
The Registered Nurse.
4. Why is the assessment step of the nursing process important?
Because it gives you the initial information as you begin to make a record for developing the
plan of care.
5. How can you obtain information during your assessment of the client?
By talking to the patient, checking the patient closely for signs or symptoms of illness, viewing
past medical records, or reviewing information the patient may bring with him or her.
6. Describe subjective data
Obtained through questioning and its information that cannot be measured or seen. They are
reports of what the patient says he or she is feeling or thinking.
7. When is information considered to be subjective?
When you have to rely on the patient’s word, or if their symptoms cannot be felt by anyone
other than the patient.
8. List other examples of subjective data that you may learn about from the client interview:
The chief problem according to the patient (in the patient’s word).
The patient’s belief about what caused the problem.
The patient’s description about what relieves the problem.
The patient’s report of the severity of the problem.
9. What is objective data?
Data that can be seen, heard, felt, or measured by someone other than the patient.
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