RNSG EXAM 1 REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. a preventable event that leads to inappropriate medication use or patient harm
Answer:
medication error
Question:
2. Who can cause a medication error?
Answer:
prescriber, student nurse, professional nurse, pharmacist, patient
Question:
3. highly toxic drugs with a narrow therapeutic range; have a high risk of causing devastating injury or
death; requires 2 nurses to verify
Answer:
high risk with high alert drugs
Question:
4. Who cannot accept verbal orders?
Answer:
nursing student
Question:
5. What does "lead, don't trail" refer to?
Answer:
Always use a leading zero before decimal (0.2) Never use trailing zero after decimal (2.0)
Question:
6. Why is "u" not an acceptable abbreviation?
Answer:
It can get mistaken for zero
Question:
7. If you have to ask yourself what the order means, you should ___
Answer:
ask the original prescriber
Question:
8. helps prevent confusion of drug products that look similar by highlighting certain syllables;
(hydrALAZINE & hydrOXYzine)
Answer:
TALL MAN lettering
, Question:
9. What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
Answer:
right patient, right drug; right dose; right route; right time; right documentation
Question:
10. Who is ultimately responsible for medication errors?
Answer:
the nurse!
Question:
11. what are the critical thinking for med administration?
Answer:
knowlege, skills, attitude
Question:
12. What is a "work around"?
Answer:
borrowing medications from another patient
Question:
13. How do you verify ID if patient is confused?
Answer:
verify wrist band and scan barcode
Question:
14. what do you do if the wrong med was given to the wrong patient?
Answer:
1 - assess patient 2 - notify charge 3 - antidote if needed 4 - document
Question:
15. when transferred or come to hospital, physician decided what medications to keep pt on
Answer:
medication reconciliation
Question:
16. What is the BEST way to check your calculation?
Answer:
Have second nurse check your calculation
Question:
17. what is the fastest route?
Answer:
IV
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. a preventable event that leads to inappropriate medication use or patient harm
Answer:
medication error
Question:
2. Who can cause a medication error?
Answer:
prescriber, student nurse, professional nurse, pharmacist, patient
Question:
3. highly toxic drugs with a narrow therapeutic range; have a high risk of causing devastating injury or
death; requires 2 nurses to verify
Answer:
high risk with high alert drugs
Question:
4. Who cannot accept verbal orders?
Answer:
nursing student
Question:
5. What does "lead, don't trail" refer to?
Answer:
Always use a leading zero before decimal (0.2) Never use trailing zero after decimal (2.0)
Question:
6. Why is "u" not an acceptable abbreviation?
Answer:
It can get mistaken for zero
Question:
7. If you have to ask yourself what the order means, you should ___
Answer:
ask the original prescriber
Question:
8. helps prevent confusion of drug products that look similar by highlighting certain syllables;
(hydrALAZINE & hydrOXYzine)
Answer:
TALL MAN lettering
, Question:
9. What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
Answer:
right patient, right drug; right dose; right route; right time; right documentation
Question:
10. Who is ultimately responsible for medication errors?
Answer:
the nurse!
Question:
11. what are the critical thinking for med administration?
Answer:
knowlege, skills, attitude
Question:
12. What is a "work around"?
Answer:
borrowing medications from another patient
Question:
13. How do you verify ID if patient is confused?
Answer:
verify wrist band and scan barcode
Question:
14. what do you do if the wrong med was given to the wrong patient?
Answer:
1 - assess patient 2 - notify charge 3 - antidote if needed 4 - document
Question:
15. when transferred or come to hospital, physician decided what medications to keep pt on
Answer:
medication reconciliation
Question:
16. What is the BEST way to check your calculation?
Answer:
Have second nurse check your calculation
Question:
17. what is the fastest route?
Answer:
IV
