MEDICINES

            Medicine is the applied science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness in human beings. Medicines must be administered to patients properly and carefully. We need to follow what the doctor prescribes and obey these. Proper administration of medicine to the patient may result to a fast recovery.

           We were given the chance by our teacher to teach us something about administering medicine to a patient. She taught us the  different meanings of symbols, the meaning of dose, the proper medicines for a body part, and the things to remember in administering medicine to a patient (the right medicine, the right amount of dosage, the right approach, at the right time, right route, right patient). So whenever when a family member gets sick and needs a medicine, I will be ready to help and serve that family member. This teaching will help me be prepared for the future.

           Proper administering of medicine to a patient will help him/her recover fast. If the right medicine is administered, then the medicine will take effect and will lead to the improvement of the person's health. If the wrong medicine is administered, then it might result to the occurrence of more illnesses or maybe death. We must always be careful in administering medicine to a patient because we don't know what might happen if we administered the wrong medicine. We should always stay healthy and keep ourselves not only healthy but also clean.

Administering medicine to a patient