You have completed calculations and determined that the dosage of the medication should be three tablets per hour. What should your next step be?
a. Ask yourself whether this dose seems reasonable.
b. Dispense the medication.
c. Ask the doctor whether the dosage is acceptable.
d. Look up the doses that other patients have been given.
a. Ask yourself whether this dose seems reasonable.
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