Medical-Surgical Nursing II · Chapter 10

The Mechanism Names the Monitoring

Nobody can memorise fifteen monitoring lists, and nobody has to. Drugs that concentrate in the kidney and inner ear get creatinine and hearing; drugs that hit marrow get a CBC; drugs that act on muscle membrane get a creatine kinase. Choose a class, predict the monitoring its mechanism demands before the answer appears — then take thirteen real orders off the rack and decide give, change or hold.

Pick a class — then predict its monitoring

Every class here is a drug your patients actually receive. The badge on each detail card tells you whether killing is time-dependent (the clock is the monitoring) or concentration-dependent (the peak is the monitoring).