Mark Klimek NCLEX Pharm questions with correct answers

Never hold the hormone for what patient? answer patient who is NPO with mydexema Addison's disease easy way to remember answer Add a Sone (sone = steroid) Best default order for click and drag order questions? answer Hold ..... med Assess ..... what med does Prepare ...... the correction Call ..... or notify Rarely if ever answer ... answer call Doctor, NCLEX wants you to think critically INR lab values answer 2-3, critical value if off, potential for patient to bleed. Use default order for order ?'s (hold all coumadin, assess for bleeding, prepare Vit K (antidote for Coumadin), Call or notify Potassium lab values answer 3.5-5.3 If low it is a critical lab to worry about assess the heart and then prepare to give K if high, hold all K, assess heart (EKG), give D5W and reg insulin, call if really high, hold, assess, prepare, call STAT Get someone else involved! Dangerous!! If question says there is pitocin running and there are complications answer stop pit first then LIONpit Pain meds in labor answer know your peaks for IV, IM, PO, Subling. If baby is likely to be born when the pain med is peaking don't give! Why? Respiratory depression in baby