Medication Aide Exam Questions and Answers

Digoxin - Answer- heart medication for congestive heart failure, have to check pulse before you give, if less than 60 do NOT give, tell your Nurse because it will lower pulse rate lasix - Answer- for edema, hypertension, removes fluids from the Body. Check blood pressure before you give, resident may be dizzy; will need potassium replacement potassium - Answer- element for the Heart, as well as Magnessuim and sodium. Lasix will remove potassium from the body so need to replace. if not replaced it can cause symptoms of cramping or irregular heart beat coumadin - Answer- blood thinner for residents that have tendency for blood clots. antidote is vitamin K. you have to check pt/ inr level antacids - Answer- pepcid stimulants - Answer- speed up brain activities example: Ritalin Antidepressants - Answer- paxil, Zoloft, wllbutrin, Elavil, trazodone,effexor Narcotics - Answer- Vicodin, Percodan, oxycocodone, morphine, Demerol, fentanyl patch, dilaudid anticonvulsants - Answer- Dilantin, valproic acid, Depakote, phenobarbital, Neurontin, mysoline antiparkinson - Answer- levodopa carbidopa (sinemet), cogentin antianxiaty - Answer- Xanax, valium, Ativan, librium antipsychotic - Answer- mellaril, Haldol, risperdal lithium - Answer- (increase salt in diet) synthroid - Answer- hypothroidism diabetes (hyperglycemia) - Answer- Glucophage (metformin), glyburide, glucotrol glaucoma - Answer- to deacrease intraocular pressure -- beetagan, truspot dyspnea - Answer- difficulty breathing diuretics - Answer- medication used for edema or to remove fluids hypoxia - Answer- lack of oxygen tachycardia - Answer- high pulse bradycardia - Answer- low pulse amnesia - Answer- temporary memory loss aphasia - Answer- not talking/ mute agnosia - Answer- inability to recognize objects or persons aproxia - Answer- lnability to carry out learned movement akinesia - Answer- inability to initiate movements dystonia - Answer- repetitive movements akathisia - Answer- unable to sit still aprasia - Answer- inability to comprehend language tardive dyskinesia - Answer- involuntary repetitive movements hypotension - Answer- low blood pressure psychosis - Answer- loss of contact with reality, have false ideas mania - Answer- extreme elevated mood, energy, unusual thought pattern dementia - Answer- cognitive disorder paranoia - Answer- thought process of excessive anxiety or fear schizophrenia - Answer- abnormal perception or expression of reality obsessive compulsive disorder - Answer- recurrent unwanted thought idea or image panic disorder - Answer- intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety terror or dread, highest level of anxiety phobias - Answer- intense fear of an object, situation or activity that has no actual danger post traumatic stress disorder - Answer- occurs after a terrifying ordeal that involve actual or threat of physical harm bipolar disorder - Answer- severe extreme in mood, energy and ability to function delusion - Answer- a false belief hallucination - Answer- seeing hearing smelling or feeling something that is not real delusion of grandeur - Answer- exaggerated belief about ones importance wealth power or talents delusion persecution - Answer- false belief that one is being mistreated, abused or harassed