In order to best assure client safety and affective medication therapy, the nurse suggests that the son who will be a administering his parent's medications via PEG (percutaneous enteral gastrostomy) tube:
a. Ask the pharmacist to provide the medications in liquid form when available
b. Crush all medications and add them to the tube feeding
c. Medications that can not be crushed should be given orally
d. Medications should be administered via the PEG all at once, one time daily
ANS: A
Administration of medications in liquid form is preferable and easier with a PEG; many medications are available in liquid format. Crushing and adding medications to food is not done unless specified by the pharmacist because food may interfere with medication effec-tiveness. Medications are given using a PEG tube. It would not be appropriate to administer medications orally to a patient who has a PEG tube since swallowing is generally to be avoided. Medications need to be administered at the frequency ordered, not just once daily.
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