Contra-Indicated In Nursing

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A nurse in a busy surgery unit that helps in an acute care hospital wants to administer medication to a patient by scanning the bar codes of his or her patient’s wristband and medication(s). This process prompts an alert that the medication you are about to administer is contra-indicated for your patient. Administering medications, it's one of your most vital nursing doings and one of the riskiest. Officially, a licensed nurse is held to the upmost expectations for giving medications. Such as, knowing a drug's indications, safe dosages, toxicity, possible adverse effects, and contraindications, declining to take a vague drug order unless the physician clarifies it, and knowing how regularly to monitor the patients’ responses. As a believer
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