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Medication Administration -

Home SettingI want you to tell me why the assigned topic is important in safe nursing practice

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Medication administration is one of the role of nurses. Safety and precautionary steps should be done by nurses in their administration of medicine in order to prevent adverse reactions, overdoses and death of their patients. They are the one who check if the medicine prescribed is correct and correctly dispense the medicine. The steps in the medication administration should always be followed. There are five steps to be followed in order to correctly administer medication: the right patient, the right drug, the right route, the right time, and the right dose. All these steps should be correctly done so that there will be no adverse reactions, overdoses or death that will occur.

Home nursing care is also a role played by nurses. Patients are being cared at home by monitoring, managing, and improving their health and well-being. These are done in order to maintain the quality of life and safety of their patients.

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