purple12

Hello, I've started volunteering at small clinic at the Christian Aid center. It's tiny clinic with 1-2 nurses. At this point in time they do not have an MD. I'm curious if anyone knows where I can find guidelines regarding providing OTC medications. Some of the nurses feel that it's okay to provide OTC medications while others feel that it's not appropriate since we do not have an MD to prescribe them. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Thank-you for your responses. This really helped to clear things up for me. I'm a 1st year nursing student. I asked my teacher to explain this to me and I just couldn't wrap my brain around her explanation. :)

Could someone please help me understand what the U in U100 insulin stands for? On a website I found it states that U100 means that there are 100 units of insulin per mL of liquid. Would that mean that a U40 syringe only has 40 units of insulin per mL and if that is the case how would you know what syringe to use when looking at a Dr.'s prescription? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. =)

For my patient care packet my patient's priority problem is fluid volume excess. I'm suppose to include what my priority focused assessment is for this problem. I believe it would be cardiovascular and that I would assess the blood pressure, heart rate, and jugular vein distention. Am I on the right track? Any ideas on what else I would assess?