Budesonide
ATI-format individual drug card with NCLEX-focused assessment, safety, teaching, and source attribution.
Budesonide
ATI class: Inhaled corticosteroid
Action
- Decreases airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness.
Therapeutic use
- Asthma maintenance
- COPD inflammatory component in selected plans
Nursing assessment
- Assess respiratory control, infection signs, oral thrush, inhaler technique, and rescue inhaler overuse.
Administration
- Inhalation
- Nebulized
Side effects
- Hoarseness
- Throat irritation
- Cough
Adverse effects
- Oral candidiasis
- Adrenal suppression with high or long-term exposure
- Infection risk
Interactions
- Strong CYP3A4 inhibitors
- Other corticosteroids
Contraindications
- Primary treatment of acute status asthmaticus
Precautions
- Not a rescue medication; use caution with active infection.
Client teaching
- Rinse mouth after use.
- Use daily as prescribed, not as rescue therapy.
- Report white mouth patches, fever, or worsening breathing.
Medication outcomes
- Therapeutic response with no priority adverse effects.
Antidote / rescue
- No specific antidote is seeded; hold/question unsafe doses and manage toxicity per provider, facility, or poison-control guidance.
NCLEX priority cues
- Inhaled steroids prevent inflammation; they do not rescue acute bronchospasm.
- Rinse mouth to prevent thrush.
- Increasing rescue inhaler use means poor control.
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