Nursing Implications for Administering Medications Properly
Hey chris have this water here for moscato she came in this morning i was able to keep this following medicine i wasn’t able to give that adjustment so he came in with atrial fibrillation yes okay yeah i’ll give her the medicine hi my name is chris i’m gonna be your nurse today can you just verify your name and date of birth with your doctor ordered you some
Digoxin to help with your atrial fibrillation i’m gonna go ahead and give that okay you can ring the bell i’ll be right back in check on you in a little bit okay oh my god mrs. kono are you okay can you hear me i need help in here mrs. kodos heart rate was below sixty beats per minute because the nurse failed to check the patient’s apical heart rate for one full
Minute before administering the digoxin mrs. koto developed severe bradycardia which resulted in a drop of her blood pressure this caused her to faint fall and break her hip this is an example of how not following the nursing implications when administering medications can cause an adverse reaction and potentially cause severe injury or harm to your patient thank
You hi i’m chris i’m gonna be your nurse today just verify your name and date of birth okay mister your doctor ordered some jackson today to help you out with your atrial fibrillation i’m gonna go ahead and give you a better one how’re you feeling today to give the johnson i have to set your capable heart rate okay there are trees 53 i’m gonna give you this i’m
Sorry there has to be 60 or above we wanted to call the doctor and see what he wants to do missus cotto’s apical heart rate was 53 beats per minute digoxin requires the heart rate to be at least 60 beats per minute or higher in order to be administered because the nurse follow the proper nursing implications for administering digoxin he held the medication and
Documented the reason why and then called mrs. kodos health care provider
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DIGOXIN GONE WRONG! By Chelsey Barber
