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Contraindicated means "not recommended" or "not indicated. "Contra" means "not".
Often, with prescribing medications especially, certain drugs should not be prescribed together.
Or, certain nursing actions would be contraindicated in certain situations.
For example, a hospitalized patient is to receive insulin before breakfast. A nursing task is to test the blood sugar (or have the patient do the test) before administering insulin. If a blood sugar today was too low, the insulin would be contrindicated based on the low blood sugar. So the insulin is withheld, the doctor notified, and the BS is re-tested later in the day. If it was higher then, enough to require insulin, a new order would be needed with an exact dose to "cover" the new rise in blood sugar.
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