Preparing for medication admin and education is a common nursing skill. Understanding the pharmacology around medication admin is a nursing responsibility.
With my students and my patients to help them understand what’s happening inside better able to predict the side effects and the intended consequences. so we’re know – comment below if you’ve been one of right after this. welcome back my name is tammy and this is nurseminder and on below so that you get the next video when it’s released. welcome back. we’re remember the way
A drug works and then subsequently what side effects and just want to let you know in the description box below in this video so if you’re an aspiring youtuber you can see what i’m using to make my video and the second is – please comment below. for sure i’m, i’m certain some of you your experiences and how this has helped you; and other stories that may be able i’m not
Going to get into how diabetes occurs and what’s happening in the body metformin and it has three functions. the first is a decreases hepatic glucose increases insulin sensitivity. so this tells me there’s a lot going on in the in the liver. and because metformin – i use decrease production, so the factory is going on a shutdown. and what that means have to be reassigned
Today. so we’re going to reassign them to do a few of these workers are going to travel down here to the intestine and they got no sugar needed today. so what happens with that glucose is it ends up now glucose is a bit of an osmotic diuretic so it’s going to pull out the likely to have diarrhea as a side effect of metformin. now a few of these other at the cell, is this
Glucose is transporting over it towards the cells need it. they really do need it. so it’s kind of like a used salesman coming to workers are coming over here and they see that insulin is trying to get that and is able to create an opening- these are glucose transporters – so that the that i’m going to have glucose leaving the blood vessel and i’m not going to combining
Effect of that is i’ve lowered my glucose so my chem strip should come proteins and fatty acids. okay so now we need to look at side effects. so i have dosing or under treatments. if i have too more glucose – i’m so low in sugar in my bloodstream. what do we call that? potentially will be a side effect of metformin. when we think of the nervous source of energy. the brain
Doesn’t store of energy, so it needs that continuous supply and if it’s not getting that i hypoglycemic, so shaky, irritable. if i i put into my stomach – nausea, vomiting, side effects. but i also talked about that sugar. so it’s more likely to be on and gas – flatulence. now when you’re teaching your patient about these side whether that’s over-the-counter, herbals, that
Would work with metformin to reduce sugar levels should be investigated to there’s also medication that will work to increase your sugar levels. if they’re balancing out in the big scheme of their care. another thing to consider is the excreted in the kidneys. so any pathology with the liver or the kidneys that the body. for example if my kidneys are not able to excrete
Urine; maybe i’m a my body – and knowing it’s half life will let you know how long that will be end up having a very hypoglycemic patient when you go to check them factory and how it needs to reassign is his decrease hepatic glucose production. that’s his marching order for today. he’s reassigned his staff member. some are working on that intestinal sensitivity like that
Salesman at your door. together that’s going to work to our patients. we need to watch for hypoglycemia because that’s one of the remember how metformin works and you can share that with your patients. if you let’s elevate the practice of those around us. until next time, make it a
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How Does Metformin Work? (Pharmacology for Nurses) By NurseMinder
