MEDICATION AIDE 2024 / 2025 EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECTLY SOLVED ANSWERS. (100% GUARANTEED PASS)

MEDICATION AIDE 2024/2025 EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECTLY SOLVED ANSWERS. (100%
GUARANTEED PASS)



1) What are the six rights of med administration? -- Answer ✔✔ The right drug, the right
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person, the right documentation, the right route, the right dose, and the right time
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2) Before you work as a med aide, you? -- Answer ✔✔ Must pass course exams, complete
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and demonstrate skills
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3) Med aides can't do what? -- Answer ✔✔ Give first doses of new meds
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4) As a med aide in your facility, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Work within the legal
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5) Factors affecting drug actions include what? -- Answer ✔✔ Weight, age, metabolic rate,
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and tolerance
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6) A person on an ACE inhibitor has hypotension and tachycardia. What should you do? -
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- Answer ✔✔ Report this to the nurse at once
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7) A person is taking diltiazem (Cardizem) a calcium ion antagonist. The person should
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what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure his or her weight daily
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8) A person taking an alpha-1 adrenergic blocking agent complains of weakness and
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lethargy. You what? -- Answer ✔✔ Both report it and record it
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9) In what situation will the persons blood pressure be lowest? -- Answer ✔✔ When lying
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,10) Which BP is normal? 136/84, 158/82, 142/88, or 116/76? -- Answer ✔✔ 116/76
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11) A person has a BP of 142/90. This is considered what? -- Answer ✔✔ Hypertension
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12) A person on a beta blocker is having bradycardia and wheezing. You what? -- Answer
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✔✔ Withhold the next dose if the nurse tells you to
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13) Which promote the formation and excretion of urine? -- Answer ✔✔ Diuretics
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14) What is a calcium channel blocker? -- Answer ✔✔ Amlodipine (Norvasc)
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15) When giving drugs for a heart dysrhythmia, you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure
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apical pulse for 1 minute
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16) Beta blockers are used to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Slow the heart rate
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17) The normal heart rate for an adult is between what? -- Answer ✔✔ 60 and 100 beats
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18) Angina means what? -- Answer ✔✔ Chest pain
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19) A person is taking a nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) sublingual tablet. He or she should what? -
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- Answer ✔✔ Let the tablet dissolve under the tongue
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20) Digoxin (Lanoxin) is usually given if the apical pulse is what? -- Answer ✔✔ Between 60
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and 100 beats per minute
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21) A platelet aggregation inhibitor prevents what? -- Answer ✔✔ Platelets from clumping
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22) Nitrates relieve angina by what? -- Answer ✔✔ Dilating coronary arteries
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23) A person has nitroglycerin (Nitrostat) sublingual tablets. The person should what? --
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Answer ✔✔ Carry the drug with them at all times
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, 24) Lanoxin is used in the treatment of heart failure. It does what? -- Answer ✔✔ Increases
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the force of heart muscle contraction
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25) Ascites is the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the what? -- Answer ✔✔ Peritoneal
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cavity

26) The purpose of a diuretic is to what? -- Answer ✔✔ Increase the loss of water from the
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27) The effects of loop diuretics last about what? -- Answer ✔✔ 6 hours
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28) Diuretics are given when? -- Answer ✔✔ In the AM t t t t t t t t t




29) What may signal dehydration and electrolyte imbalance from diuretics? -- Answer ✔✔
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30) An embolus is what? -- Answer ✔✔ A small part of a thrombus that breaks off and
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travels through the vascular system until it lodges in a blood vessel
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31) What drug is not a platelet inhibitor? Dipyridamole (Persantine), Ticlopidine (Ticlid),
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Clopidgrel (Plavix), or Warfarin (Coumadin)? -- Answer ✔✔ Warfsrin (Coumadin)
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32) A blood clot is called what? -- Answer ✔✔ A thrombus
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33) Aspirin is what? -- Answer ✔✔ a platelet inhibitor
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35) When giving pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), you should what? -- Answer ✔✔ Measure
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36) You tell a patient about your personal problems. This is a what? -- Answer ✔✔
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