NURS 601B  Week 8 Assignment APRN Bridge course

NURS 601B  Week 8 Assignment APRN Bridge course

NURS 601B  Week 8 Assignment APRN Bridge course

Please respond to the APRN Bridge course discussion question.

An APRN can protect his or her DEA number by describing the components of a prescription.
Offer advice on how to avoid some of the most common prescription-writing mistakes.

In your response to national guidelines and evidence-based research, use at least one scholarly source that is not from your textbook.
To do this, you must.
In addition, you can provide an example from your own life or from the media that illustrates and supports your ideas.
Each and every source must be cited and referenced in accordance with the proper APA style (including a link to the source).

Information for Patients and Doctors

At the top of the prescription, this information is usually provided.
In most cases, this information includes the name, office address, and phone number of the prescribing physician.

Informed Consent of the Patient

The patient’s information follows the prescriber’s.
Listed here will be the patient’s full name, date of birth, and date of last examination.
It’s possible to find the patient’s home address here.
The date on which you penned the prescription should be included as well.

In this case, the recipe (Rx)

The dosage and form of the prescribed medication should be included in the recipe.
To write “acetaminophen 650 mg tablets” or “acetaminophen 650 mg tabs,” you would use “acetaminophen 650 mg tablets.”

Signatura (Sig)

Patients are given instructions on how to take their medication by the signature (Sig).
There should be instructions on how much, how often, and what method of taking the drug in the Sig.

Abbreviations such as “1 tab PO q6h” or “1 tab PO q6h” can be used to indicate that your patient should take one acetaminophen tablet every six hours.

Prescribing on the basis of need (PRN) means that you should specify that the medication is only to be used if your patient needs it and describe the circumstances in which your patient can take the medication.
Patients can choose to take their medication on-demand if a PRN order is included in their prescription.

Suppose that you want to prescribe acetaminophen to your patient, and you want him or her to take one 650 mg tablet every six hours for a headache.
“Take 1 tablet by mouth every six hours as needed for a headache” or “1 tab PO q6h PRN headache” would be your instructions.

Indications for dispensing medication (Disp)

The next step is to provide the pharmacist with dispensing instructions, which tell them how much medication to give your patient.
Medication must be prescribed in a specific dosage and form.
The risk of a medication error can be minimized by writing out any numbers you use here.
There are two ways to express how many acetaminophen tablets you’d like to give your patient for a one-week supply: “28 (twenty-eight) tabs” or “28 (twenty-eight) tablets.”

The number of refills (Rf)

You can tell your patient how many times they can use this prescription to refill their medication after reading the dispensing instructions.
Make sure you write down all the numbers you use, and then write them down again.
“zero refills” should be written if you don’t want to issue any more prescriptions.
If you are prescribing one refill of acetaminophen, you would write “1 (one) refill.”

Signature of the Prescriber

You should sign your name at the bottom of the prescription.
The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is frequently included in this section.
The Drug Enforcement Agency Number (DEA Number) is typically included in shipments of controlled substances.
Pharmacy staff can verify your prescription more quickly if these are present.

In this case, our prescription for acetaminophen looks like this:

The following is an example of a prescription that follows the 7-step process.

Prescriptions for over four and a half billion pills will be filled in US pharmacies by the year 2020.
Prescriptions are a major source of medical errors because of how common they are.
As a matter of fact, prescription mistakes are responsible for 70% of all medication errors that cause harm.
As a result, learning how to properly write a prescription is an essential skill for all clinicians.

We should take a look at two of the most common mistakes in writing a prescription.
There are a number of things to keep in mind when writing a prescription by hand.
If you’re a physician, you’ll likely have to write prescriptions by hand at some point in your career.
Patients, pharmacists, and other medical providers can be frustrated by illegible prescriptions, which can increase the risk of medication errors.
Always take a few extra seconds to write out a legible prescription rather than risk your patient’s health, no matter how busy you are.

Use abbreviations with caution.
A medication error can occur when abbreviations are misunderstood or misused, which is why abbreviations are commonly used in medicine.
Therefore, only use well-known abbreviations in your prescriptions if you choose to do so (some commonly used medical abbreviations can be found here).
Don’t be afraid to write out your instructions in full if you’re not sure if an abbreviation is right for the task at hand.