Question

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

Contingent on the age of the patient, the medical caretaker may utilize diverse methodologies, evaluation instruments, or hardware to address the necessities. These requirements are additionally patients' rights and should be regarded.

In a few parts of care, your activities change incredibly with the age of the patient:

•           Performing physical evaluation and translating the discoveries

•           Administrating prescription

•           Assessing and tending to wholesome status

•           Communicating

o          Encouraging the patient to make inquiries

o          Using a fitting style and unpredictability of dialect, both oral and composed

o          Explaining intercessions and methods

•           Involving the patient in care and basic leadership

•           Providing direction and instruction o Choosing suitable strategies and apparatuses

•           Selecting medicinal gear, and supplies

•           Assisting the patient to adapt to hospitalization

•           Assessing hazard for damage and initiating preventive measures

Neonate, ages 1 day to 28 days:

•           Developmental Task = Trust versus Mistrust, improvement of the capacity to depend on others.

•           Cuddle and embrace. Delicate sensation incitement advances neural improvement. Nestling likewise encourages improvement of trust.

•           Risk-counteractive action o Position on the back for rest, to avert suffocation.

o          Initiate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) preventive intercessions.

o          Use outrageous alert in managing prescriptions and evaluate potential impact of maternal solutions on the neonate. Moore, et al. (2002) detailed that among youngsters more youthful than 2 years old, around 40% of the lethal antagonistic medication occasions happened among kids amid their first month of life.

o          Position legitimately amid nourishing and burp the neonate. Hazard for yearning is high because of adolescence and nearness of respiratory and gastrointestinal entries.

o          Touch tenderly finished the front and back fontanels, which are still delicate.

o          Assess body temperature and keep up consistent ecological temperature. The neonate is in danger for both hypothermia and hyperthermia because of juvenile warmth control framework.

o          Assess liquid adjust. Neonate is in danger for lack of hydration because of juvenile renal capacity, high metabolic rate and unaware liquid misfortune.

o          Protect from stressors, for example, lights, commotion, and over the top taking care of. Due to physical youthfulness, the neonate has constrained capacity to oversee stressors.

•           Recognize that the neonate's conduct is to a great extent reflex in nature.

•           Facilitate holding with the guardians, particularly the mother.

Senior (or Later Adult):

Formative Task = Ego Integrity versus lose hope, the acknowledgment of life and of the self as they may be.

Most senior citizens encounter a progression of misfortunes and lament these misfortunes. Misfortunes incorporate dynamic loss of physical capacities, loss of memory, loss of a life partner, loss of associates, loss of freedom, and loss of a feeling of pertinence. One senior guide announced that for some of her customers, the loss of the driver's permit (and the freedom it symbolizes and makes conceivable) was frequently as annihilating as the loss of the life partner (Williams, 2004).

Generally and in much research, the terms senior and elderly have depicted people 65 years old and more established. People in this age assemble represent 48% of intense healing facility confirmations (Mezey, et al., 2001). Since the 1990s, the quantity of people more established than 65 years has expanded and more people are living into their late 80s, 90s and even mid 100s. Numerous individuals put off retirement, or start a moment vocation or work life subsequent to resigning at age 65. A few specialists have reclassified elderly to mean individuals who are 75 years of age and more established. Individuals inside the age gather 65 years to 100+ years change significantly in their physical, engine/tangible, subjective and psychomotor attributes, depending to some degree on age. Some gerontological specialists characterize three groupings inside the age aggregate 65 years to 100+ years:

•           Young Old, ages 65 years to 75 years

•           Old, ages 75 years to 85 years

•           Old, ages 85 years and more seasoned

Routine nursing care systems make dangers for elderly patients to a more noteworthy degree than for more youthful grown-ups. For instance:

•           IV begins and blood draws are frequently troublesome because of little and delicate veins.

•           IV treatment introduces the danger of liquid over-burden. Liquid adjust is more fragile with elderly people. The elderly are especially powerless against lack of hydration – which may present as disarray.

•           Fragile skin is effortlessly torn amid tape evacuation.

•           Moving in bed can harm delicate skin.

•           Fractures may come about because of extremely minor injury because of osteoporosis.

•           Medications exhibit extraordinary dangers. As a result of hindered digestion, generally more muscle to fat ratio, traded off renal capacity, and modifications delivered by sickness conditions, the elderly are very delicate to the impacts of medications. A restricted edge of wellbeing – between insignificant successful dosage and lethal measurement – is frequently a factor.

•           Because of their elevated affectability to the impacts of medications and the quantity of medications they regularly get, senior citizens are in danger for conceivably genuine impacts of poly drug store.