Correct And Verified Answers
ac - Correct Answer-before meals
ADLs - Correct Answer-Activities of Daily
Living.
ad lib - Correct Answer-as desired
ADR - Correct Answer-Adverse Drug Reaction.
ALF - Correct Answer-Assisted Living Facility.
A.M. - Correct Answer-morning
amb - Correct Answer-ambulate
APS - Correct Answer-Adult Protective
Services.
bid - Correct Answer-twice a day
BM - Correct Answer-Bowel Movement.
BON - Correct Answer-Board of Nursing.
BOP - Correct Answer-Board of Pharmacy.
BP - Correct Answer-Blood Pressure.
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,BR - Correct Answer-Bathroom.
BRP - Correct Answer-Bathroom Privileges.
BSC - Correct Answer-Bedside Commode.
buc - Correct Answer-buccal
BUN - Correct Answer-Blood Urea Nitrogen. a
measure of the kidney's ability to excrete
urea, the chief waste product of protein
breakdown.
C - Correct Answer-with
cap - Correct Answer-capsule
cc - Correct Answer-cubic centimeter
CE - Correct Answer-Continuing Education.
Educational requirement to maintain a
license or certificate.
CHF - Correct Answer-Congestive Heart
Failure; a disease of the heart most
commonly referred to as "heart failure".
cm - Correct Answer-centimeter
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,c/o - Correct Answer-complaints of
COPD - Correct Answer-Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease; a condition of the
respiratory system in which breathing is
difficult.
CVA - Correct Answer-Cerebrovascular Accident or stroke.
dc - Correct Answer-discontinue or discharge
DEA - Correct Answer-Drug Enforcement Administration, a federal
agency which regulates and enforces laws on drugs in Schedules
I-V.
DON - Correct Answer-Director of Nurses.
DSS - Correct Answer-Department of Social Services.
ETOH - Correct Answer-Alcohol.
FDA - Correct Answer-Food & Drug Administration, the federal
agency which enforces the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
GI - Correct Answer-Gastrointestinal.
gm - Correct Answer-gram
gtt - Correct Answer-drop
H2O - Correct Answer-water
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, HOH - Correct Answer-Hard of Hearing.
HTN - Correct Answer-Hypertension.
I&O - Correct Answer-Intake and Output.
Inh - Correct Answer-Inhalation
ISP - Correct Answer-Individualized Service Plan, a document
required by the DSS which outlines the plan of care for clients in
assisted living facilities.
IV - Correct Answer-Intravenous.
kg - Correct Answer-killogram
lb - Correct Answer-pound
liq - Correct Answer-liquid
m - Correct Answer-meter
meds - Correct Answer-medication
meq - Correct Answer-milliequivalent
mg - Correct Answer-milligram
MI - Correct Answer-Myocaedial Infraction.
ml - Correct Answer-milliliter
NDA - Correct Answer-No Drug Allergies.
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