STUDY GUIDE 2026 | PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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, Best default order for click and drag order questions? Hold ..... med
Assess ..... what med does
Prepare ...... the correction
Call ..... or notify
Rarely if ever answer ... call Doctor, NCLEX wants you to think critically
INR lab values 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 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 stop pit first then LIONpit
complications
Pain meds in labor 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
OB medications tocolytics stop contractions, Brethine causes maternal tachycardia, Nifedipine (dipine - CCB)
causes Hypotension and headache
OB medications oxytocics makes labor more intense, Pitocin, Methergine, Cervidil
OB medications Fetal/Neonatal Lung meds Betamethasone, speeds the development of the baby's lungs, given to Mom
before baby is born, given IM, will increase the blood sugar of Mom
Survanta (surfactant) given to baby after baby is born given trastracheal through the airway develops
lungs