Josh Cohen is a high school student interested in being a pharmacist. He is in a career planning class that helps students explore career options. One of the assignments is to shadow a healthcare professional. You are a seasoned nurse on a medical-surgical unit and have agreed to help him. He watches you calculate doses, prepare and check medications, and administer medications. How would you answer these questions that he asks you after medication administration? 5.What if the order for a medication is different from the label of the medication? As you show the student how to calculate medication dosages, he asks these questions: 6.Why are there so many different methods of calculating drug dosages
Josh Cohen is a high school student interested in being a pharmacist. He is in a career planning class that helps students explore career options. One of the assignments is to shadow a healthcare professional. You are a seasoned nurse on a medical-surgical unit and have agreed to help him. He watches you calculate doses, prepare and check medications, and administer medications. How would you answer these questions that he asks you after medication administration?
5.What if the order for a medication is different from the label of the medication?
As you show the student how to calculate medication dosages, he asks these questions:
6.Why are there so many different methods of calculating drug dosages
Medication administration is the administration of drug into the patient body through oral, parenteral, topical, instillation and rectal route.
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