QUESTION 1. Outline the procedure you would take should you identify or make a medication error. Your answer should incl
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QUESTION 1. Outline the procedure you would take should you
identify or make a medication error. Your answer should include who
you will notify and why, as well as any points of documentation you
would need to complete.
QUESTION 2. The National Safety and Quality Health Standard
“Preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections”
states as part of its aim “to prevent and control the spread of
antimicrobial resistance through the appropriate prescribing and
use of antimicrobials” Briefly discuss why this is important
in modern healthcare.
QUESTION 3. In your state of study, what other codes
and guidelines regulate nurses in respect to medication
administration?
QUESTION 4. Should you identify a patient having an adverse
reaction, who would you report it to?
QUESTION 5. Your patient has been ordered a premedication
which includes Temazepam to be given prior to surgery but you
notice that the consent for surgery has not been signed. What would
your actions be in this situation?
QUESTION 6. You hang a patient’s second dose of Meropenem
1g IV at 1600hours. About 10 minutes into the infusion, the patient
starts feeling unwell. They are short of breath, nauseated and
diaphoretic. What do you suspect is happening and what will your
actions be?
QUESTION 7. You are caring for a patient with a history of
dementia; they are due for their morning medications but have
refused to take them. Briefly outline your next actions.
QUESTION 8. In your own words, outline the advantages of
using a burette when administering IV medications to paediatric or
elderly patients.
identify or make a medication error. Your answer should include who
you will notify and why, as well as any points of documentation you
would need to complete.
QUESTION 2. The National Safety and Quality Health Standard
“Preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections”
states as part of its aim “to prevent and control the spread of
antimicrobial resistance through the appropriate prescribing and
use of antimicrobials” Briefly discuss why this is important
in modern healthcare.
QUESTION 3. In your state of study, what other codes
and guidelines regulate nurses in respect to medication
administration?
QUESTION 4. Should you identify a patient having an adverse
reaction, who would you report it to?
QUESTION 5. Your patient has been ordered a premedication
which includes Temazepam to be given prior to surgery but you
notice that the consent for surgery has not been signed. What would
your actions be in this situation?
QUESTION 6. You hang a patient’s second dose of Meropenem
1g IV at 1600hours. About 10 minutes into the infusion, the patient
starts feeling unwell. They are short of breath, nauseated and
diaphoretic. What do you suspect is happening and what will your
actions be?
QUESTION 7. You are caring for a patient with a history of
dementia; they are due for their morning medications but have
refused to take them. Briefly outline your next actions.
QUESTION 8. In your own words, outline the advantages of
using a burette when administering IV medications to paediatric or
elderly patients.