Medicine management reflection
On Wednesday the 14th of June, our insight day was medicine management and practice assessments on safe medicate. I found this was crucially needed. I feel that although I have access to safe medicate and I follow the tutorials which are very useful, having assessments allocated allows me to practice medication management. Throughout this session I completed the assessment and although my score was good, I missed a few points. Looking back, I can see where I went wrong. At the time of the assessment, I picked the traditional method over the drop rate denominator (DRD), for IV medicine management. Therefore, I did not need to work out the drop rate denominator for IV. Before we started the assessment, we covered both methods of calculation for IV and so when the assessment came to the IV section instead of writing the number of drops per mill, I was calculating the DRD. At the time I was aware of the two methods interlinking but I thought that was the right calculation at the time. This was a big learning experience for me and from this I am able to identify the two methods separately and calculate IV correctly for both methods. I also liked that Caroline (practice supervisor) was continuously present for myself and group to ask questions if needed. Caroline offered incredible support and assisted further when I emailed regarding extending the amount of assessment time so that I could have more practice on the weekend. Overall, I am really happy we had the opportunity to practice medicine management within our insight placement.