Pharmacology for Nursing: Assignment
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PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSES
ContentsINTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................3a) Discuss the practice of covert administration of medication in nursing...............................................3b) Legal and pharmaceutical issues that should be considered when administering medicines covertly.7Legal issues.........................................................................................................................................7Pharmaceutical issues..........................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................10REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONNursing is one of the necessary zone for treatment of the people and administration ofsomeone health & protection of people life using kind of adrenaline. Also, in nursery where useof pharmaceutical is very pro longed along with carry out legal practice to remove its side effectsto the human being. In nursing, practices such as using of the medication and its ethical usageplays vital role in conduction of treatment and also ensuring its correct applicability in terms ofmedication transformation for future benefits of a people (Adams, & Urban, 2015) Covertadministration of medication is one major problems associated to testing and administeringmedication to gather its right usage. In this practices, medicines are being administered in thedisguised format such as mixing in the food, drinks or any other using stuff. This report will light on Discuss the practice of covert administration of medication innursing and legal as well as pharmaceutical issues that should be considered when administeringmedicines covertly. Also, report will also have discussion on legal and pharmaceutical issues,when practising covert administration of the medicose. Through this report, an empoweringmessage will be passed to society to carry out its active participation on a dominant stage. Also,certain legislation & regulation will be considers in this regards to find correct discussion onthese issues. MAIN BODY a) Discuss the practice of covert administration of medication in nursingPharmacology is a branch of biology concerned with a study of the drug or medicationaction, where a drugs have to be defined in broad manner as like any manmade, natural or kindof a endogenous which exerts a biochemical or physiological effects on the cell, tissue, organs ororganisms. This kind of study is being focus on studying use of a medicos along with put lightson a concluding results in given time period. This was noticed that use of medicose by the nursesis matter of serious concern and there are various cases have been founds, which revealed oncovert administration of medication to people, without knowledge or consent of the person.Covert administration happens when medicines are being administered in a disguised format.The medicines can be applied in hidden food, drink or through a feeding tube without knowledgeor consent of a person receiving it. In that condition, person is completely unaware about this
whole and nurses injects this to patient to check or test dose of the medicines. As a result, personis unknowingly injects the medicines. Moreover, every person has given right to refusesmedicine, if it suits patient or person interest who is injecting it. In UK, covert administration ismandatory to be practiced or necessary: When the person is actively refuses that medicine and which is necessary to be applicablefor the treatment, That person is administered not for having the capacity to makes out clear understandingof the consequences of its own medication refusal. Such capacity is implemented by themental capacity act, 2005. Medicine is deemed to be an essential to a person well-being and well-being.Covert administration should be last resort. Nurses have to pursue out reasonable efforts togives out medicines in the normal manner. In order to protect health and threat to the humanbeing, hence there are several other methods of an administration such as use of liquid ratherthan solid (Papadopoulou and et. al., 2017). This is why, because liquid dissolves any powderbased drugs in the stomach and due to which threats for its impact is also not that much severeand serious. To have control on covert administration, there are various laws & regulation thathas been executed to control out the impact of the covert administration. Before taking practicesas part of serious concern, nurses and health professionals have to takes out decisions and actionagainst key principles under mental capacity act, 2005 which is as follows: Every adult have right to makes out his or her decision on taking of any medicose,whether it is beneficial for person or not. But for covert administration, approval ofperson family must be taken, before injecting medication in veins or mixingmedicines in food or drinks, During covert administration, person is not to be treated as unable to makes acomplete decision unless of all practicable steps to help them do so have been takenwithout the success, Nurses must not be treated person to takes out decision merely, because he or shemakes out an unwise decision. Person have complete right to makes out decision thatother might regards an unwise.
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