PHINMA-UNIVERSITY OF ILOILO
COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES
Nursing Department
DRUG STUDY
THERAPEUTIC NURSING
MEDICATION INDICATIONS CONTRAINDICATIONS SIDE EFFECTS
ACTIONS RESPONSIBILITIES/PRECAUTIO
GENERIC NAME: Metoclopramide works To treat nausea and o Fatigue •Assess and monitor vital signs
by antagonizing vomiting in patients o Restlessness
•Hypersensitivity to •Monitor the frequency, severity
central and peripheral with o Sedation
Metoclopramide dopamine-two gastroesophageal metoclopramide or duration of GI problems (nausea,
o Headache
receptors (D2) in the reflux disease (in procainamide o Dizziness vomiting, heartburn, hiccups) to
BRAND NAME: medullary patients who fail to o Drowsiness document drug effectiveness.
chemoreceptor trigger respond to o Decreased
Reglan, Clopra zone in the area established therapy) •Gastrointestinal
energy
postrema, usually and diabetic bleeding o Diarrhea
stimulated by levodopa gastroparesis by
CLASSIFICATION: o Nausea
or apomorphine. It increasing gastric
o Vomiting
achieves this by motility.[
Antiemetics decreasing the o Feeling unwell
sensitivity of visceral (malaise)
ROUTE: afferent nerves that o Trouble sleeping
transmit from the (insomnia)
gastrointestinal system o Breast
Oral
to the vomiting center tenderness or
in the area postrema in swelling
DOSAGE/FREQUENCY: the chemoreceptor
trigger zone.
10 mg Q8H
PREPARED BY: _LAYSON, MA. JAZYLE D. _____ NOTED BY: _____________________________
STUDENT’S NAME CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR
COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES
Nursing Department
DRUG STUDY
THERAPEUTIC NURSING
MEDICATION INDICATIONS CONTRAINDICATIONS SIDE EFFECTS
ACTIONS RESPONSIBILITIES/PRECAUTIO
GENERIC NAME: Metoclopramide works To treat nausea and o Fatigue •Assess and monitor vital signs
by antagonizing vomiting in patients o Restlessness
•Hypersensitivity to •Monitor the frequency, severity
central and peripheral with o Sedation
Metoclopramide dopamine-two gastroesophageal metoclopramide or duration of GI problems (nausea,
o Headache
receptors (D2) in the reflux disease (in procainamide o Dizziness vomiting, heartburn, hiccups) to
BRAND NAME: medullary patients who fail to o Drowsiness document drug effectiveness.
chemoreceptor trigger respond to o Decreased
Reglan, Clopra zone in the area established therapy) •Gastrointestinal
energy
postrema, usually and diabetic bleeding o Diarrhea
stimulated by levodopa gastroparesis by
CLASSIFICATION: o Nausea
or apomorphine. It increasing gastric
o Vomiting
achieves this by motility.[
Antiemetics decreasing the o Feeling unwell
sensitivity of visceral (malaise)
ROUTE: afferent nerves that o Trouble sleeping
transmit from the (insomnia)
gastrointestinal system o Breast
Oral
to the vomiting center tenderness or
in the area postrema in swelling
DOSAGE/FREQUENCY: the chemoreceptor
trigger zone.
10 mg Q8H
PREPARED BY: _LAYSON, MA. JAZYLE D. _____ NOTED BY: _____________________________
STUDENT’S NAME CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR
