A protocol defines a set of procedures or steps to be followed for the accomplishment of a given task. Your task for this assignment is to develop a drug protocol that covers all the requirements for you and other health personnel to follow in a hospital ward environment to ensure both safety and quality requirements for administering your chosen medication (as per the case studies below) are met.
General Information
You are working on a ward and are a newly registered nurse to this area. You are required to administer medication to one of the patients assigned to you (which represent one of the supplied case studies below). You are unsure of how to give the medication and seek out the unit’s medication protocol for help but are unable to find one. You approach the Nurse Unit Manager who suggests you develop a drug protocol for this medication to be utilised on the ward which includes consideration of the patient when discharged i.e education.
Instructions:
1. You are to choose ONE of the following case studies below to write for your assignment.
2. The assignment consists of 2 parts (see point 3).
You are required to download the Template (which will form Part A of your assignment) supplied in a word document format which will allow you to directly add-in the information to each section. Any information supplied in italics in the template is to be deleted and replaced with your information. No section of this template is to be left blank. If no information is available then ‘N/A’ (indicating ‘not applicable’) is to be used.
Please do not submit or convert this template to a PDF. This completed document, along with your discussion (Part B) is to be submitted as one document to the assessment area of the Moodle site (see exemplar on the Moodle site).
3. The assignment has two parts.
Part A: Development of Drug Protocol (see exemplar on Moodle site)
Your task for this part of this assignment is to utilise the template supplied (which contains all the headings and additional information [in italics] guiding you as what is required) and develop a drug protocol that is specific medication related to the illness or disease stated in your chosen case study.
This means that if you choose:
Case study 1: You need to develop a drug protocol for the administration of salbutamol for treatment of asthma.
Case study 2: You need to develop a drug protocol for the administration of rivaroxaban for treatment in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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