Medication Antidotes
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Pharmacology is NO JOKE!
You need to know these or at least the ones that apply most specifically to your floor.
So much of what we do on a daily basis as a nurse is centered around medications . . . you have to take your nursing pharmacology seriously.
Check out this cheatsheet:
HEEEELP!
You hear a new nurse yelling from down the hall.
Itâs 0200 and you are working on an Adult MedSurg floor.
You RUN to the room and find a non responsive patient lying almost lifeless in bed. Â They are breathing at only 5 RPM and even a deep sternal rub barely makes them budge.
The nurse tells you she just gave 0.5mg of Ativan.
In that moment you HAVE to know what the antidote for Ativan is if you are going to save this patient.
You run to the med room . . . .Â
What medication do you pull to reverse the effects of ativan?
If you said Romazicon, you saved the patient's life.
