How to Avoid Drug Errors
In a profession like ours where lives are at stake, there is no room for mistake. That’s why we nurses must always be alert and aware of what we do....
Category: Drug Study
What’s New In Healthcare: Electronic Aspirin
Electronic Aspirin Allie has always been fascinated by technology and new discoveries. For her, they were interesting and were ways of improving things. One afternoon, she was browsing the internet...
A New Drug May Help Relieve Menopausal Vulvar and Vaginal Atrophy Symptoms
It’s no question how much innovations and new discoveries in healthcare have helped in the delivery of quality care to patients. Those which were once deemed as impossible are now...
FDA Clears New Medicine Briviact (brivaracetam) for Partial-Onset Seizures
A new medicine has been approved by The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an add-on treatment for partial onset seizures (POS) in patients age 16 years and older...
36 Common Drugs and Their Antidotes that Nurses should Know
evi is up all night to study for her exams. Tonight, her focus is on Pharmacology. She sighs in frustration as she reads the third paragraph over and over and...
What You Need To Know About Inotropics
Christmas season is way past over, however, Nurse Hannah finds herself staring at a Christmas Tree-like ceiling. Like Colorful Christmas balls, IV hooks are full of different IV bottles of...
Hyoscine Nursing Responsibilities
Generic Name: Hyoscine Butylbromide Brand Name: Amucin, Ascopen, Buscin, Buscomed, Buscopan, Busopin, Buston, Fucon, Gascopan, Gastride, Losil, Rotomide, Scolmin, Spasmosan, Xspas Classification: Antispasmodic, Muscle Relaxant Indications: 1. Spasms of the...
Citicoline Indication and Nursing Management
Generic Name: Citicoline Brand Name: Nicholin, Somazine, 5′-Cytidine diphosphate choline, CDPC, CDP Choline, CDP-Choline, Citicholine, Citicolina, Cytidine 5-Diphosphocholine, Cytidine 5′-diphosphocholine, Cytidine (5′) diphosphocholine Classification: Neurotonics, Nootropics Mechanism of Action Citicoline...
Captopril Nursing Responsibilities
Brand Name: Capoten Classification: Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitor, Antihypertensive Indications Hypertension Management of congestive heart failure (CHF) Reduces the risk of death or development of CHF after myocardial infarction...
Lidocaine Nursing Responsibilities
Brand Name: (Parenteral) LidoPen, Xylocaine (Local Anesthetic) Dilocane, Lidoject, Nervocaine, Octocaine, Xylovaine (Mucosal) Anestacon, Xylocaine Viscous (Lidocaine Patch) Lidoderm, (Topical) DermaFlex, ELA-Max, Solarcaine, Aloe Extra Burn Relief, Xylocaine, Zilactin-L Classification:...
