Unit Y50010598 Administer Medication to Individuals‚ and Monitor the Effects Learning outcome 1: understand legislation‚ policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication. 1.1 The Medicines Act (1968) requires that the pharmacist and dispensing doctor is responsible for supplying medication. They can only dispense on the receipt of a signed prescription form an authorised person.eg doctor‚ nurse practitioner. The Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) This prevents the misuse of Controlled
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(candidate) Dawn Abbiss DC00572824 ADMINISTERING MEDICATION Units Covered: EYMP3 – 6.2 Where is the information stored in the workplace? in the staff room in the ‘Policy’ folder Has the Policy/information been reviewed: Y N Has there been any identified changes? Y N What? Summarise your current Legislation/Guidelines: Include : Regulations concerning storing and administering medication Although it is not ideal to keep medication in school‚ it is sometimes necessary. Some children
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Nursing‚ is considered a practice-based discipline involving many nursing theories as well as inputs from several other scientific disciplines. It is also a branch of knowledge that is ordered through the theories and methods that is evolving as inputs from several other scientific disciplines. Nursing practice integrates numerous roles and functions of the nurse as it focuses mainly on the achievement of optimal functioning of the patient. It encompasses the maintenance and promotion of health of
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Anticoagulant Medications Cherie Hubbard St. Petersburg College Anticoagulant Medications As our population ages‚ patients are living longer as a result of advances in medical technology‚ surgical procedures‚ and drug development(Bressler MD & Bahl PhD‚ 2003). The average older person is taking two to five prescription medications daily and one in five of this age group has a medication related hospitalization annually (McLean & LeCouteur‚ 2004). In my eighteen years of nursing
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the Center of Disease Control‚ the percent of people using at least one prescription drug in the past month increased nearly 50 percent between 2007 and 2010 (“Public Citizen”). There are many reasons for this increase. First‚ many prescription medications are now being advertised through direct marketing on television commercials or in magazines. Many people see these commercials and decide that they have the symptoms described and are then sucked into the fake reality that they have a problem when
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Case Study: Jill’s Medication Case Study Questions: 1. Identify the lapses in care that occurred throughout the case and led to Jill’s medication crisis. Which of these lapses occurred as a result of an individual-level (provider) failure? Which were system-level failures? Throughout the Jill’s experience‚ there was many lapses between the health care team in regards to filling her prescription. First‚ Dr. Smith‚ the referred neurologist declined Jill’s medical records‚ as if they were of no importance
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Basic Concepts of Error Analysis 1. Significant Figures: The laboratory usually involves measurements of several physical quantities such as length‚ mass‚ time‚ voltage and current. The values of these quantities should be presented in terms of Significant Figures as follows. For example‚ the location of the arrow is to be determined in Fig. 1. It is obvious that the location is between 1 cm and 2 cm. The correct way to express this location is to make one more estimate based on your intuition
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Trial and error is an experimental method of problem solving‚ repair‚ tuning‚ or obtaining knowledge. "Learning doesn’t happen from failure itself but rather from analyzing the failure‚ making a change‚ and then trying again." This approach can be seen as one of the two basic approaches to problem solving and is contrasted with an approach using insight and theory. However‚ there are intermediate methods which for example‚ use theory to guide the method‚ an approach known as guided empiricism.
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disability nurse wishing to ascertain the effectiveness of CBT as a practical intervention when presented with the dual-diagnosis of anxiety disorder and learning disability‚ is through the use of ’evidence-based practice’. When deciding on the best possible clinical intervention for an identified practice problem it seams logical to convert the issue into a single answerable question
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the other side‚ could it effect me in a negative way? ADHD medication affects everyone in a different way‚ But is the risk really worth the reward? ADHD medication can come as a stimulant‚ or as a non-stimulant. When diagnosed you will most likely be prescribed a stimulant (unless you ask for a non-stimulant). Stimulants are psychoactive drugs that induce temporary improvements to either mental or physical functions. The stimulant medications act in the brain similarly to a family of key brain neurotransmitters
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