Enteric liquid for NGT patient?????

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Hello, I'm a first year nursing student and recently took an exam in which a question was ask "If an order for an enteric-coated medication was ordered for a patient on a nasal gastric tube (NGT) by a physician, what would be the best nursing response? The answer was that the nurse would contact the pharmacy and ask if there was a liquid form of the drug available. I am disputing this answer because 1) enteric medications only come in one form and 2.) The proper action would be to contact the physician considering the patient is a NGT patient. Would this be the proper response? Since there is no liquid enteric-coated form of any drug, isn't it unnecessary to call the pharmacy on such an obvious oversight made by the prescribing physician? Would you not go directly to the source? Normally, you would contact the pharmacist if the patient needed a different form of a drug (a different drug form does not always require a physician's order), but knowing that enteric is not a liquid why not contact the physician? How in the world could such an order make it to the floor having gone through the pharmacy at the hospital to begin with? Has anyone experienced this problem in a real life situation?:confused: Thanks

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