Correct medication
Maria Dorvil
Belhaven University
BHA326
Abstract
During the past few years, the Evidence-Based Medicine represents an integration of the clinical view of the patients’ safety. Throughout my years of being in the medical field, my Medical Knowledge grows every day. Evidence-based medicine is not easy to explain compared to medical practice. Because it requires a bottom-up approach that integrates the best external evidence with individual clinical expertise and patients’ choice, it cannot result in slavish, cookbook approaches to individual patient care. That is why I choose the five evidence-based performance for a few different scenarios related to prescribing medications to the right patients for the correct diagnosis. First Home Health Agencies will be the start and demonstrate five right for patients with five conditions that fall under steps of performance measures. Management of oral medication is a challenge for the patients.
Right Dosage
Medication should administrate in the right dosage, or the medication can even…show more content… Medication should be either thirty and sixty minute before or after administration time. The physicians will order the exact time to administer based on the patient condition or disease. For example, regular Insulin has to be administered thirty minutes before meals. Levothyroxine has to be administered with meals because of the gastrointestinal absorption.
Right Route.
There are several different routes medications can be given just to name a few; oral, intramuscular, intravenously, Intradermal, sublingual and buccal (side of the cheeks). The two fastest route to dissolve is by intravenously and buccal into your bloodstream and treat patient. The other routes are the gastrointestinal process to deal with the patient. This step indicates the directions to imply the medication correctly. The knowledge of how to administer the
