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Tylenol: By: Allison Plato

Tylenol, or acetaminophen, is a nonopioid analgesic and antipyretic used to treat mild to moderate pain or fever. It acts in the peripheral nervous system to block pain impulses without reducing inflammation. Common uses include headaches, migraines, arthritis pain, and fever. Dosing is based on age and weight. Potential side effects range from drowsiness and nausea to liver damage or failure in cases of overdose. Nursing assessments focus on monitoring for signs of toxicity, allergic reactions or chronic overuse while educating patients on proper administration and warning signs.

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Tylenol: By: Allison Plato

Tylenol, or acetaminophen, is a nonopioid analgesic and antipyretic used to treat mild to moderate pain or fever. It acts in the peripheral nervous system to block pain impulses without reducing inflammation. Common uses include headaches, migraines, arthritis pain, and fever. Dosing is based on age and weight. Potential side effects range from drowsiness and nausea to liver damage or failure in cases of overdose. Nursing assessments focus on monitoring for signs of toxicity, allergic reactions or chronic overuse while educating patients on proper administration and warning signs.

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TYLENOL

By: Allison Plato


Generic/Trade Name
Tylenol is the generic name of the drug, but the trade
name is called Acetaminophen
(a-seat-a-mee’noe-fen)

Tylenol’s functional classification: it is a nonopioid


analgesic, antipyrectic
Action & Uses
Tylenol acts as a wall against pain
impulses in the peripheral
nervous system, it does not help
with inflammation in the body
Tylenol is used to treat mild to
moderate pain or fever, migraines,
arthralgia, dental pain,
dysmenorrhea, headache, myalgia,
and osteoarthritis
Administration
Adult and children > 12 yr: Oral and Rectally 325-650
mg q4-6 hr PRN, max 4 g/day
Child 1 – 12 yr: Oral 10-15 mg/kg q4-6 hr, max 5 doses/
24 hr; Rectally 10-20 mg/kg/ dose q4-6hr
Neonate: Rectally 10-15 mg/kg/ dose q 6-8hr

If you are suffering from nausea or severe vomiting,


Tylenol may be administered rectally over PO to
ensure the medication is absorbed
Side Effects
Major Side Effects: GI bleeding, renal failure,
leukopenia, neutropenia, hemoplytic anemia,
cyanosis, anemia, neutopenia, jaundice, vascular
collapse, seizures, coma, death

Common Side Effects:


Drowsiness, nausea,
vomiting
Case Scenario
An 17 year old girl has suffered from severe head aches most of
her teen years. She states she feels a stabbing pain in temples
and it sometimes hurts her eyes, to the point where lights
bother her. If she lets them go untreated for awhile she will
start to feel physical ill. She usually gets these headaches from
not eating properly throughout the day or when she is very
stressed. To relieve the pain she tries to put a cold cloth on her
head and relax in a dark quiet room; if she hasn’t eaten all day
then drinking juice or trying to eat something helps. She
doesn’t know any other way of relieving her headaches. She is
nervous about trying medication because she does not want
to take something that will harm her.
Nursing Process: Assessment/ Interventions
Hepatic studies, renal studies, blood studies, in & out ratio,
fever and pain, chronic poisoning, hepatotoxicity as well as
allergic reactions
Give crushed or whole; chewable tabs may chewed; give with a
full glass of water
If there is any presence of allergic reaction, discontinue using
Tylenol immediately and contact your physician.
If you have a sudden onset of a rapid, weak pulse, dyspnea; cold
clammy extremities, report immediately to prescriber
If reason for taking medication has not been dismissed you may
require another dose of Tylenol, within the correct time line
Nursing Process: Evaluate
Therapeutic response: absence of pain (pain scoring),
as well as absence of fever
Evaluate the absence of allergic reactions as well as
chronic poisoning
Nursing Process: Health Teaching
Do not exceed recommended dose: acute poisoning
with liver damage may result
Toxicity may occur when used with other combination
products (i.e.; alcohol)
Recognize signs of chronic overdose; bleeding,
bruising, malaise, fever, and sore throat
As well, to notify the prescriber if pain or fever lasts
over 3 days
Nursing Diagnosis
Acute pain related to lack of knowledge of pain
control techniques and methods to prevent headaches
as evidence by expression of pain with no relief, and
proper pharmacological methods to relieve pain.
Questions ?
Name something you would health teach the patient
on with regards to the use of Tylenol.

In your own words, describe the action of Tylenol


within the body.
Reference
Ackley, B. & Ladwig, G. (2008). Nursing Diagnosis Handbook
(8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.

McNeil Consumer Healthcare. (2010, September 15). Tylenol.


Retrieved from http://www.tylenol.ca

Skidmore-Roth, L. (2011). Nursing Drug Reference (24th Ed.).


Littleton, COL: Mosby Elsevier.

Swart, B. (2011). Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care


Practice (2nd Ed.) Toronto, ON: Mosby Elsevier.

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