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This document outlines key points nurses must consider when administering medications including common routes of administration, factors to consider before administering, parts of a prescription, units for measuring drug quantities, and abbreviations for medication schedules. Specifically, it discusses routes like oral, intravenous, rectal; considerations like checking the prescription; units like mg and ml; and schedules like once a day, every morning using abbreviations like PO, BID, PRN.

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Advanced Nursing Assignment

This document outlines key points nurses must consider when administering medications including common routes of administration, factors to consider before administering, parts of a prescription, units for measuring drug quantities, and abbreviations for medication schedules. Specifically, it discusses routes like oral, intravenous, rectal; considerations like checking the prescription; units like mg and ml; and schedules like once a day, every morning using abbreviations like PO, BID, PRN.

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ADVANCE NURSING ASSIGNMENT

1. State routes through which medications are administered


2. Discuss what nurses must consider before administering medications
3. Describe the parts of a prescription
4. State common units used for measuring the quantity of drugs to be administered
5. COMPLETE THE TABLE WITH THEIR ABBREVIATION

Once a day

Every other day

Per Os, Oral, through the


mouth

At bed time (hour of sleep)

Per rectum

Every morning

Every evening

As required

Intravenous push

Endosinusial

Buccal

Per vaginal

Sublingual

After meals

Intracerebral

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