Eye drops

Nurses General Nursing

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If you were instilling 2 different types of eye drops to a patient how long would you wait between administering each drop?

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Policy at my facility is 3-5 mins between different types of eye drops. Hope that helps.

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Specializes in OR, L&D, Newborn nursery, OB/GYN Clinic.

Five minutes.

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Specializes in Oncology.

I'm not sure we have a policy at my hospital, but when I had eye surgery my ophthalmologist said 3-5 minutes between drops.

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Passing meds to 40 pts within a 2 hr frame is 3 min per pt. Sometimes 5 min between gtts doesn't happen in the real world.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Normally, at least a few minutes. The only exception to this that I know of is when we send patients for eye surgery...we do four drops, five minutes apart, so you give each one in succession, wait five minutes, and do it again.

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inhalers how many minutes between each one

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