Medication Administration: Clinical Skill and Critical Analysis

This assignment focuses on medication administration by a second-year nursing student under the supervision of a registered nurse in a clinical setting. The paper emphasizes the importance of adhering to safety protocols, validating uncertain situations, and learning from experiences. It discusses the rules and principles that second-year students must consider, including safety, uncertainty and validation, lessons learned, and clinical reasoning. The assignment highlights the importance of paying attention to patient details, medication schedules, and correct dosages. The conclusion underscores that medication administration is an opportunity for learning and professional growth, encouraging students to learn from registered nurses and apply best practices. The assignment also includes references to support the discussion.

Administer Medication

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Medication of administration is concerned with procedure through which medication
given to patient is administrated. This involve that right medication is given to right patient and
right dose is given to patient and at right time. This study will discuss about how to administer
medication as a second-year student under supervision with a registered nurse in clinical setting.
MAIN BODY
Administration of medication as a second-year nurse is done under supervision of
registered nurse. However a second year student might not administer any IV medication without
supervision. Second year student requires to administer medication as per the instructions of
registered nurse and there are certain rules and principles that should be considered by second-
year students when are administering medication (Hayes and et.al., 2017, P. 4839-4847). Rules
that second year students should consider during medication administration include safety,
uncertainty and need for validation, lessons learned and clinical reasoning.
Safety is most important part of medication administration in which it is very important
that second-year students need to consider. This means that it is firstly ensured by student that
medication being given to patient is completely safe and there is no side effect other than what is
exception in case of patient. This means there are certain general side-effects that patient might
experience as a result of medication. Uncertainty and need for validation is also important
because in this, it is considered that any uncertain situation can arise in relation with medical
condition of patient and as a result, their medication should be validated from the registered
nurse before giving them to patients. Lesson learned is also a rule that second year student
should consider in which it is important that second year students learn about lesson from
different situations they experience during administration of medication for patients. Clinical
reasoning is also a rule that should be considered by second year students during medication
administration under supervision of registered nurse (Alteren and et.al., 2018, P. 3613-3621).
Clinical reasoning involves identifying what are the reasons because of which patient is being
given certain medication.
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In addition to this, second year student should also ensure that they give attention to facts
such as patients details, their medication that they take and timings on which patient should be
given to patient. Along with this, doses should also be properly considered by second year
student when they are administering medication of patients. This means that it should be well
considered that doses that are given to right person for doses should be ensured (Jarvill and et.al.,
2018, p. 3-7). In addition to this, time of medication is very important, in this it should be
considered that medication is given on right time and within right gap between medications.
Similarly, doses of medication should also be considered before giving to patient, doses involve
quantity of medicine or drug that needs to be given to patient.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it can be said that for second year student medicine
administration is not only work but also an opportunity for learning. This means that they should
also learn from registered nurse about medication and its practices.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Alteren, J and et.al., 2018. Conflicting priorities: observation of medicine
administration. Journal of clinical nursing. 27(19-20). pp.3613-3621.
Hayes, C and et.al., 2017. Calm to chaos: Engaging undergraduate nursing students with the
complex nature of interruptions during medication administration. Journal of clinical
nursing. 26(23-24). pp.4839-4847.
Jarvill, M and et.al., 2018. Effect of simulation on nursing students' medication administration
competence. Clinical simulation in Nursing. 14. pp.3-7.
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