Question

You are preparing to gibe medications to your patient. She has 10 oral medications due at 0900 plus eyedrops. You have verified the physician's orders with the MAR. There is one medication you do not recognize, and you have looked it up. As you begin to prepare the midcation, you are interuppted twice by other staff members with questions. You feel like you are scattered rather than focused as you begin preparing the medications. You notice that one of her medications is not provided in the exact unit of measurement that it is ordered. Yopur patient is receiveg two blood pressure medications and a cardiac glycoside.

Determine what steps you need to take to prepare these medications and the order in which you will perform them.

Answer 1

Administration of medication is the most important and careful task for nurses as any error might harm to the patient. If the nurse found that she didn't give any medicine on time, administer it at that time itself. If she found that she had given seeing dosage of medicine, immediately she should check the vital signs of the patient and repeat it after 15 minutes and 30minute and after that hourly or second hourly.

While preparing medicine for administration, the nurse should make sure that she wouldn't get any distractions and also cross check with an another nurse especially a senior staff weather she prepared it correctly before giving to your patient. Also identity the patient before giving it to him and recheck the orders at patient side also. It will reduce the medication administration errors.