DRUG STUDY #1

NAME OF PATIENT: N.U. _ NAME OF STUDENT: CRISTYL SHINE G. BARIAO _

AGE & GENDER OF PATIENT: 30 YEARS OLD/FEMALE _ WARD/ROOM NO.: OB WARD/ 6 _
DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2021 _

DOSE, ADVERSE
MECHANISM NURSING
NAME OF DRUG ROUTE, AND INDICATION CONTRAINDICATION REACTIONS/SIDE
OF ACTION RESPONSIBILITIES
FREQUENCY EFFECTS
Generic Name: 500 mg Cefuroxime is a It is a drug used to The following Common side BEFORE:

bactericidal treat bacterial conditions are effects of the drug:  Verify the medication to
CEFUROXIME agent that works infections in various the doctor if it is not

parts of the body. It contraindicated to the  Nausea 

understandable.
Check the right drug,
ORAL by inhibiting drug: patient, dose, route, time,
works by either killing  Vomiting
bacterial cell wall frequency, and expiration
Brand Name: synthesis.
or inhibiting the
 Hypersensitivity  Diarrhea 
date.
Check the medical
growth of bacteria.
Ceftin BID Cefuroxime is This medication, to the drug and  Flu-like history of the patient if
she has any conditions
active in the however, is other symptoms that is contraindication to
the prescribed drug and
presence of ineffective against components of  Vaginal has an allergy to the drug.
 Check the vital signs.
Classification: certain beta- colds, flu, and other the drug like itching or
lactamases, viral infections. It is DURING:
CEPHALOSPORIN moderately penicillin. discharge
penicillinases and  Give the medication with

ANTIBIOTICS susceptible to minor  Use cautiously The following

food to reduce GI upset
cephalosporins, and improve absorption.

and Gram-
infections such as to a patient that can be an adverse  Observe for any reactions
when the patient takes
pharyngitis/tonsillitis, has a renal effects of the drug:
negative and acute maxillary 
the medication.
If a hypersensitive
Gram-positive sinusitis, persistent
impairment and reaction occurs,

bacteria. By lactating mother.  CNS: fever, discontinue use.

bronchitis, acute
binding to otitis media, simple chills, or AFTER:

specific pores and skin and seizures  Evaluate if there is a sign

of allergy occurred.
penicillin-binding pores and skin  RESP: chest  Check again the vital
signs.
proteins (PBPs) structure, UTIs, pain  Educate the patient
gonorrhea, and early regarding the adverse
located inside the  GI: severe reaction/side effects of
Lyme disease.
bacterial cell wall, stomach the drug and if any may
occur report it
it inhibits the pain, immediately to the nurse
or physician.
third and final
jaundice,  Document the given
step of bacterial medication in the
diarrhea is therapeutic chart.
cell wall
synthesis. watery or
bloody
 DRUG STUDY #2
NAME OF PATIENT: N.U. _ NAME OF STUDENT: CRISTYL SHINE G. BARIAO _
AGE & GENDER OF PATIENT: 30 YEARS OLD/FEMALE _ WARD/ROOM NO.: OB WARD/ 6 _
DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2021 _

DOSE, ROUTE, ADVERSE

MECHANISM NURSING
NAME OF DRUG AND INDICATION CONTRAINDICATION REACTIONS/SIDE
OF ACTION RESPONSIBILITIES
FREQUENCY EFFECTS
Generic Name: 500 mg It is thought to It is a treatment The following It rarely causes BEFORE:

PARACETAMOL produce for mild- conditions are side effects when  Verify the medication to
the doctor if it is not
analgesia by moderate pain contraindicated to the given a correct understandable.
Check the right drug,
ORAL inhibiting and febrile drug: dose. However

patient, dose, route, time,
frequency, and expiration
Brand Name: prostaglandins conditions such  Hypersensitivity allergic reactions date.
 Check the medical
and other as fever, to the drug. may occur such as history of the patient if
Dafalgan TID/PRN
substances that headache,  Liver and Kidney skin rash, skin she has any conditions
that is contraindication to
sensitize pain stomach ache, problems peeling or mouth the prescribed drug and
has an allergy to the drug.

Classification: receptors. The and cold  Underweight ulcers. In addition,  Check the vital signs.

drug may relieve symptoms. adverse reactions

ANALGESICS, fever by acting may occur when
DURING:
ANTIPYRETICS centrally in the had too much dose
 Observe for any reactions
when the patient takes
the medication.
hypothalamic of the drug  If a hypersensitive
reaction occurs,
heat-regulating (overdose) such as: discontinue use.
center.  Nausea,
vomiting, AFTER:

and diarrhea  Evaluate if there is a sign

of allergy occurred.
 Poor  Check again the vital
signs.
appetite  Educate the patient
regarding the adverse
 Confusion or reaction/side effects of
the drug and if any may
extreme occur report it
immediately to the nurse
sleepiness or physician.
 Document the given
medication in the
therapeutic chart.
 DRUG STUDY #3
NAME OF PATIENT: N.U. _ NAME OF STUDENT: CRISTYL SHINE G. BARIAO _
AGE & GENDER OF PATIENT: 30 YEARS OLD/FEMALE _ WARD/ROOM NO.: OB WARD/ 6 _
DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2021 _

DOSE, ROUTE, ADVERSE

MECHANISM NURSING
NAME OF DRUG AND INDICATION CONTRAINDICATION REACTIONS/SIDE
OF ACTION RESPONSIBILITIES
FREQUENCY EFFECTS
Generic Name: 1 TAB Moringa is rich in The following The following are The following are BEFORE:
micronutrients, and conditions are some adverse reactions
contraindicated to the  Verify the medication to
MORINGA mothers who consume indications to the drug:
drug: to the drug: the doctor if it is not
moringa are also rich understandable.
 Diabetes
ORAL in micronutrients. The
 Increased  When pregnant, it  In big doses, it  Check the right drug,
patient, dose, route,
role of micronutrients can cause
breast milk is possibly unsafe time, frequency, and
Brand Name: such as Fe in Moringa
production stomach upset, expiration date.
extract increases to use the root, gaseous  Check the medical
Lexmin OD  Malnutrition
hemoglobin in bark, or flowers of history of the patient if
 Anemia/ distension, she has any conditions
pregnant women while
Bleeding moringa because nausea, that is contraindication
preventing DNA to the prescribed drug.
 High blood chemicals that diarrhea, and
damage from Check the vital signs.
Classification: oxidative stress.
pressure
include it may heartburn.


 Infection or
Pregnant women with cause the uterus  Certain
ANTI- anemia who received
skin infections
 Swelling or to contract, chemicals DURING:
MICROBIAL, moringa saw a found in its
inflammation resulting in  Observe for any
ANTI- significant increase in
 Antibacterial roots, flowers, reactions when the
hemoglobin levels. miscarriages.
INFLAMMATORY Moringa extract  Moringa may
and bark may patient takes the
medication.
contains active cause uterine
chemicals or
aggravate contractions in
phytochemicals such hypothyroidism. pregnant AFTER:
as flavonoids, women.
 Evaluate if there is an
phytosterols, and  Seed extracts adverse reactions
steroids that have should be occurred.
anti-inflammatory,  Check again the vital
avoided signs.
anti-carcinogenic,
anti-proliferative, and because they  Educate the patient
regarding the adverse
anti-viral properties. may cause
reaction/side effects of
The phytochemical toxicity in the drug and if any may
content of this extract immune cells. occur report it
immediately to the
protects the mother
nurse or physician.
from diseases that can  Document the given
affect the growth of medication in the
the fetus during therapeutic chart.
pregnancy.
 DRUG STUDY #4
NAME OF PATIENT: N.U. _ NAME OF STUDENT: CRISTYL SHINE G. BARIAO _
AGE & GENDER OF PATIENT: 30 YEARS OLD/FEMALE _ WARD/ROOM NO.: OB WARD/ 6 _
DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2021 _

DOSE, ROUTE, ADVERSE

NAME OF MECHANISM NURSING
AND INDICATION CONTRAINDICATION REACTIONS/SIDE
DRUG OF ACTION RESPONSIBILITIES
FREQUENCY EFFECTS
Generic Name: 1 TAB Ferrous sulfate This iron The drug is not The following are BEFORE:

corrects iron recommended for the some of the most

FERROUS + supplement is common side effects of
 Verify the medication to the
doctor if it is not
deficiency anemia following conditions:
FOLIC ACID used to treat or the drug: 
understandable.
Check the right drug,
ORAL by providing iron prevent low  Hypersensitivity to patient, dose, route, time,
required for the the drug or any of its  Gastrointestinal frequency, and expiration
blood iron levels components. irritation and date.
production of  Check the medical history
Brand Name: hemoglobin and
caused by  Patients suffering abdominal pain of the patient if she has any
OD  Vomiting and conditions that is
certain iron- anemia or during from iron deficiency contraindication to the
Foralivit or iron absorption
nausea prescribed drug and has an
containing pregnancy, as  Constipation or allergy to the drug.
disorders.
enzymes, as well well as to treat  Have certain
diarrhea  Check the vital signs.

Vitamin B  Feces can turn

Classification: as saturating iron metabolic disorders
DURING:
black in color.
storage organs. complex such as  Patient may take the
medication on empty
IRON Iron is absorbed deficiency and hemochromatosis, stomach or after taken
meals to reduce
SUPPLEMENT, irregularly and prenatal hemoglobinopathies, Although a severe gastrointestinal side-
effects.
ANTI-ANEMIA incompletely from hematinic. It also
and hemosiderosis. allergic reaction to this  Observe for any reactions

the  Have drug is uncommon, it when the patient takes the

improves iron gastrointestinal should be reported if any
medication.
gastrointestinal  If a hypersensitive reaction

tract, with the

absorption from diseases such as of the following occurs, discontinue use.

ulcers or colitis. conditions occur:

duodenum and the stomach. AFTER:
 Have a vitamin B12  Rash
jejunum being the deficiency  Itching and
 Evaluate if there is an
adverse reactions occurred.
main sites of (pernicious anemia) swelling,  Check again the vital signs.
 Educate the patient
action. Iron particularly in regarding the adverse
reaction/side effects of the
deficiency or the face, drug and if any may occur
fasting increase tongue, and report it immediately to the
nurse or physician.
throat
absorption.  Inform patients that they
 Extreme may have discolored stools.
 Document the given
dizziness medication in the
 Difficulty of therapeutic chart.

breathing