Medication Route

No

Medications for injection should be sterile. A tablet is not sterile. Please consult a pharmacist or the patient's provider for appropriate orders.

And I really hope this isn't a serious question.

I can't think of any PO medication that can be crushed and administered subcutaneously. In fact, I think by doing that, you would be putting the patient at risk for potential harm. After all, you're injecting a medication into the upper layers of skin that is not likely to be absorbed.

However, if you talk to your pharmacist, you may be able to find an alternative form of the of medication that can be given in lieu of taking it orally: sublingual (no swallowing needed, it's absorbed under the tongue), transdermal, topical, rectal, intranasal, intramuscular...and of course, intravenous. If the specific medication doesn't come in a non-oral form, perhaps the pharmacist knows an similar medication that does.

Hope this helps.

Tablets are not only not sterile but they contain inactive ingredients that don't fully dissolve. While in THEORY a tablet could be crushed, dissolved and the resultant solution injected, the abscesses that practice would cause would be horrible. As the other posters have said, if the patient cannot swallow there are usually alternatives other than injection.