A patient's health care provider wrote a prescription for an antibiotic for an upper respiratory infection. According to safe medication practice standards, the nurse should transcribe the order as which of the following?
a. .5 mg
b. 5.0 mg
c. mg
d. 0.5 mg
D
Follow practice standards when medications are ordered to prevent medication errors. For exam-ple, to make the decimal point more visible, a leading zero is always placed in front of a decimal (e.g., use 0.5, not .5). On the other hand, do not use a trailing zero, a zero after a decimal point, because if a health care worker does not see the decimal point, the patient may end up receiving 10 times more medication than what is prescribed (e.g., use 5 not 5.0). Always give fractions in decimal form.
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