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Medications Activity 19ard2 noltsinsmusod ytivitA noitsaibaM Goal: To accurately demonstrate the ability to assist in the administration of medications. mat Directions: Set up the classroom with various stations. At each station there will be a different 1. medication situation. 200 2. Students rotate through the stations, addressing the situations and documenting their actions. Stations: The following are suggested stations and are considered a minimal for this activity. Instructors should adapt the activity to challenge students with 'real' situations that they will encounter in the field. Eye drops: The client is recovering from cataract surgery on his left eye. The care plan states that he is to be given three drops in the eye during your visit. Demonstrate using a mannequin. Document your actions. 1. Liquid medication: The care plan for your client specifies that she is to be given liquid cough medication at 2 pm. Read the label on the medication and pour the appropriate amount in the medication cup. Document your actions. 2. 3. Ear drops: The client is four years old and has an ear infection. You are in the family home providing assistance to the family because the mother is recovering from a car accident and the father is at work. Demonstrate using a mannequin (child mannequin if one is available) the correct technique to give ear drops. Document your actions. 4. Tablets: Your client has Parkinson's disease and severe tremors in his hands. The care plan states that the PSW is to assist him by opening the medication bottle and giving him the appropriate oral medication. Read the medication bottle label. Demonstrate the proper technique to pour tablets out of the bottle to give to the client. Document your actions. Liquid medication: You are assisting the RN with medications in an Alzheimer's residential unit. The RN has just given a resident liquid medication. The resident spits the medication all over the floor. Document your actions. 5.

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1, Tilt the head slightly back and look up, pull the lower eyelid slightly down with one hand, hold the dropper tip over the eyelid pocket, squeeze gently and let you make the eye drops fall from the pocket.
2, Medication bottle instructions read thoroughly. medication given through the device available on the syrup bottle with the marked amount, it was given orally the entire content emptied in the back of the tongue to avoid bitterness. the patient swallows and tolerated well, there are no side effects.
3, wash the hands before touching the drops, rotate the medicine bottle between the palm of the hands and make it warm, be sure the drops are not too hot or cold, ask the child lie down with affected ear upwards, observe the child ear for any discharge, clean the child ear with tissue, gently pull the outer ear upward and backward to make the ear canal open and straight. conform the ear canal is open and gently press the ear drops holding the bottle upwards and rub the front of the ear gently to flow the drop-down, ask the child to remain in the same position for 1-2 minutes, replace the cap immediately after use, place the cotton ball in the child's ear to avoid the medicine to flow back.
4, Read the medications bottle instructions and understand the name of the medicine and directions, ask help from nurses or pharmacists for clear instruction. Have a good grip on the container to open the bottle and push the bottle downward and tun and rotate t open. squeeze the side and turn to line up the arrows. open the container, find the table wide edge and hold the container and pull the container in the quick and downward movement against the edge of the table using a flat surface turn the container down over the flat surface, press downward the container. rotate the container lid in gently and make sure the click sound you heard.