Drug Administration in Nursing
Children’s bodies are very different from adults; medicine with known side effects requires careful administration. Drugs known to tranquilize by decelerating response to the peripheral nervous system can be observed more extremely at reducing doses in children, according to Roberts, Rodriguez, Murphy, & Crescenzi (2003). A juvenile’s circulatory system is not as secure as a fully developed person; thus, cardial yield is less. Water-soluble medicine will be more dilute in a baby than in a grown-up. Newborn’s circulating blood volume is small, and dehydration can affect how medicine is transported in blood circulation throughout the body.
Pediatric patients have small airway size that makes early administration of medication to dry airway secretions and encourage bronchodilation very paramount to those in respiratory distress. Young children digest food more than twice as fast as an adult, which means that an orally given dose can be absorbed and enter the cardiovascular system faster than in a mature patient. The quick absorption rate is useful when giving oral medication for fever or pain. However, swallowed toxin will be absorbed into the circulation twice as fast. A grown-up person can be given mouth activated charcoal an hour later after swallowing, and the charcoal will prevent the absorption. (Roberts, Rodriguez, Murphy, & Crescenzi, 2003).
The medicine must be broken down, utilized by the body then changed into a solution the body can excrete. The neonate’s digestion is lower than a fully grown man meaning the body will change and remove medicine more slowly. Babies have an increased waste production rate. Thus, metabolized medicine will be eliminated rapidly than in a fully grown person. Giving medication to minor patients is alright when their personal physiological and anatomical difference is assessed.