Medication Administration: A Case Study

Medication administration is one of the most serious activities and of greater responsibility of Nursing. In order to implement it, one should require competence, knowledge, skills and application of scientific principles as regards the preparation, the administration routes and the adverse events. This paper was aimed at performing a bibliographic review about medication administration by means of direct parenteral route, as regards the application area, the material to be used and the technique described in the literature. The methodology used was the exploratory, selective, analytical and interpretive search and reading of papers published in scientific journals by considering the intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular and intravenous