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Why should you let the alcohol dry before giving the injection in the intradermal location?
To ensure that medications are not diluted, or to minimize interactions. Also patient comfort, it stings.
Why do nurses use seventy percent alcohol to wipe the skin before giving injection?
Kills germs on the skin that may cause an infection
What should the person giving an injection do to make sure that the correct medication is given to the correct patient?
ask patient's name and check the ID band
When giving a subcutaneous injection to an obese patient the nurse should give the injection at what angle?
A 90 degree angle is recommended but for obese patient the critical factor is for the Sc to be administered ti the fatty tissue and not the muscle of just under the epidermis.
What are the precautions observed in adding the medication to IV fluids?
If you are adding a drug to IV fluid, you have to take all the aseptic precautions as you take for giving IV injection to the patient. Other wise patient will get bacteremia.
Do you aspirate when giving a b-12 injection?
No
Why we should pass oxygen through water before giving it to the patient?
so poo doesn't get in their mouth
What is the difference between administering medicine and assisting with medicine?
Administering medication means actually giving meds, especially by injection or other means than having the patient take the medication. Assisting with medication means assisting the patient administer their own medication, such as arranging them and having them ready for the patient to take, or reminding the patient to take their meds.
Thumps in piglets can be prevented by giving?
iron injection
What are the rationale in giving subcutaneous injection of insulin?
For quick absorption.
You are giving medication another staff asking to give injection and she is going for break what you will do?
It depends on the situation. I would if I wasn't busy and I knew enough about the patient to dispense medication. Usually, the right thing to do is a nurse should take care of her patients needs first and get them situated before going on break. Instead of dumping on someone else and the patient having to wait for something they need for comfort. Most caring nurses will think of their patients needs before their own.
What are the dangers of giving a patient with life threatening asthma Benzodiazepines?
What are the dangers of giving a patient with life threatening asthma Benzodiazepines
