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Person K collects the appropriate equipment in order to administer the medication, performs the hand hygiene, prepares the medication, and takes it to the person M at the correct time. Person K also uses two patient identifiers in order to ensure that person M is the right patient. Which step does person K needs to take next in administering the medication?
Case summary:
Person K is a nursing student caring for person M who is 48-year-old being treated for multiple fractures due to a motorcycle accident. The health care provider ordered for a new medication for morphine sulfate liquid suspension 20 mg orally STAT and then q4h as needed for the pain. The medications are ordered in the form of a liquid suspension as person M seems to have difficulty in swallowing the pills due to the result of the trauma.
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