MAP 327 - Exam Room Technique II-B

• Comprehend the material presented relevant to medication administration and demonstrate proficiency in unit competencies.
• Comprehend the material presented regarding protective practices and urgent care and demonstrate proficiency in unit competencies.

Course Objectives:

Unit 1: Medication Administration

• Discuss types of medication orders.
• Prepare prescriptions per orders.
• Describe requirements for scheduled drugs.
• Summarize the important aspects of a drug label.
• Define basic units of measurement in the metric system and household system.
• Convert between measurement systems.
• Perform pharmacology calculations including quantity needed for a specific time period, tablets per dose, and milliliters per dose.
• Perform pharmacology calculations for pediatric dosages.
• Identify abbreviations used in calculating medication dosages. 
• Identify the rights of medication administration.
• Discuss various forms of medication.
• Explain routes of administration including oral, sublingual, buccal, transdermal, topical, inhalation, vaginal, rectal, nasal, ocular, otic, and parenteral.
• Identify markings on several types of syringes.
• Discuss types and parts of needles and syringes.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for administering oral medications.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for preparing medications from an ampule.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for preparing medications from a prefilled syringe.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for preparing medications from a vial.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for reconstitution of powdered medication.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for mixing two types of insulin.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for administering an intradermal medication. 
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for administering a subcutaneous medication.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for administering an intramuscular medication.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for administering an intramuscular medication using the z-track technique.
• Competency: Convert among measurement systems.
• Competency: Apply mathematical computations to solve equations. 
• Competency: Calculate proper dosages of medication for administration.
• Competency: Verify the rules of medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right documentation.
• Competency: Administer oral medications.
• Competency: Select proper sites for administering parenteral medication.
• Competency: Administer parenteral (excluding IV) medications.
• Competency: Demonstrate proper disposal of biohazardous material: sharps. 
• Competency: Document patient care accurately in the medical record. 

Unit 2: Urgent Care

• Identify basic principles of first aid.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for providing first aid for bleeding.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for providing first aid to a patient in insulin shock.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for providing first aid to a patient having a stroke.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for providing first aid to a patient with seizure activity.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for proving first aid to a patient experiencing syncope.
• Identify supplies, equipment, and procedural steps for proving first aid during an environmental emergency such as temperature-related emergencies, burns, poisonings, anaphylaxis, insect bites and stings, animal bites, and foreign bodies in the eye.
• Competency: Provide up-to-date documentation of provider/professional level CPR.
• Competency: Perform first aid procedures for bleeding.
• Competency: Perform first aid procedures for diabetic coma or insulin shock.
• Competency: Perform first aid procedures for stroke.
• Competency: Perform first aid procedures for seizures.
• Competency: Perform first aid procedures for syncope. 
• Competency: Perform first aid procedures for an environmental emergency.