Student Survive 2 Thrive: Drug Administration Common Abbreviations

This set of flash cards features common abbreviations related to drug administration. Some abbreviations are no longer used in many facilities because they are on the "forbidden" list due to frequently being misread; know one's facility rules for documentation. For example, qd, is often written out as "daily" to avoid any misunderstanding on a prescription. With the advent of computers, many words are plugged in at the click of a mouse, deleting the need to save time through the use of written abbreviations.

These flashcards also include the Latin origin in parentheses, if applicable. I think sometimes it helps to know where abbreviations originated because they may be confusing when looking at the English words written out. One way I found to remember ac is that "a" comes BEFORE any other letter in the alphabet, so ac means BEFORE meals. Also, one might think of a bicycle that has two wheels to remember bid is twice a day, while tricycles have three wheels and tid means three times a day. Always consider the context – some abbreviations may stand for more than one term(s) while a term may be represented by more than one abbreviation.

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