Right drug and dosage
In order to ensure effective measurements and calculations carried, the allied health professionals should adhere to the following steps. The health profession should first ensure that the routine of the medications such as orally, topically, and nasal administration are upholding. Another vital area to be considered in the medical profession is the accurate calculation and right medication. And lastly is the monitoring of the drugs given to the patient. Medicine practitioners should ensure that the right drug and dosage are prescribed to the appropriate ailment. However, the health practitioner should avoid possible sources of errors that are caused by similar names or similar packaging of drugs on the shelf. Some medications also require testing to ensure therapeutical standards are maintained. Finally, the health practitioner should also ensure that the prescribed medication is timely and fully taken according to the set dosage. In case the health profession has any doubt in his calculation, he should recheck it or incorporate another core worker.
Liquid medicines rely greatly on the information provided by the allied health professionals to the household. Most of the instructions in the calculations are done in the apothecary system. Apothecary units include fluid drams, fluid ounces, pounds, pints, drams, quarters for volumes and pounds for weight. However, such units are not easily understood by the household. The medical practitioner should, therefore, know how to convert the apothecary units to household units to ease the administration of medicines. However, household measurements depend on the volume of liquid medication. Their units include tablespoon, teaspoon, pints, cups, gallons and quarters. The only challenge that allied health professionals can encounter is errors due to inappropriate calculations. However, both patients and the health profession should strictly follow the guidelines to avoid complications that may arise with errors.