Question

 

Initial Discussion Post:

Medication administration is modified to meet the needs of the individual patient.

Compare and contrast safe medication administration for a very young and very old patient.

Consider pharmacokinetics, nursing implications and /or health teaching as you create your post.

Base your initial post on your readings and research of this topic. Your initial post must contain a minimum of 250 words. References, citations, and repeating the question do not count towards the 250 word minimum.

Answer 1

As it is well known that medication is one of the essential aspects of healthcare system hence it is one area with possibility of many errors. Furthermore the objective of drug therapy is to produce, the desired therapeutic effect, with minimum toxic effects.

‘There are various physiological inter-individual variations in pharmacokinetic parameters in each patient.

Hence there is need of individualization of patients prior to start the drug therapy.

It is highly advisable to go through patient history, patients p[physiological status along with disease history as well as genetic history in each cases in adult as well as geriatric patient.

Especially in case of geriatric patients the psychological state and body lean mass study should be performed along with their occupational history.

The above mentioned consideration is very important before study these should be assessed as it can highly influence the overall effectiveness of the regimen.

Hence to ensure safe medication in adult as well as in geriatric patients there is need of individualization of patient for proper dose and proper route selection to avoid unwanted effects and offer safe medication delivery.

At the same time pharmacokinetic variations should be the base for the dose selection in the therapy.

The nursing implications are very important for the settlement of entire regimen, as well as the patient education is highly desired by the nursing staff to the patients to ensure the safe medication chances and lesser side effects.

Hence by applying such practices in healthcare system we can achieve safe medication milestones.