Unit 4222-616 Administer medication to individuals and monitor the effects Outcome 1 Understand legislation‚ policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication 1. Identify current legislation‚ guidelines policies and protocols relevant to the administration of medication: The Medicines Acts 1968 and various amendments cover the legal management of medication. While care staffs are not expected to have detailed knowledge of the legislation‚ they do need to be aware of the legal difference
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principle of an incurable infection is not. This is because‚ due to the abuse of antibiotics from doctors and those in the farming industry‚ biologists are beginning to discover the effects that the abuse of the antibiotics has on bacteria‚ and what they have uncovered is the real risk of these normal bacteria turning into….. SUPERBUGS! So what are superbugs? Superbugs are strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotic drugs. Superbugs are an impending crisis because they will affect a lot
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Penicillin V (generic name) is an antibiotic drug largely used in pharmacy practice‚ belonging to the Penicillin group of drugs. There are many other drugs that are also in the Penicillin family such as amoxicillin‚ ampicillin‚ carbenicillin‚ dicloxacillin and oxacillin. These are used in patients to treat bacterial infections. (https://www.drugs.com/penicillin.html). Penicillin was discovered by chance by Alexander Fleming in 1928 when Penicillium spores had been introduced to the culture medium
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Florence: Hey there! It’s October 30th 1929 and welcome to the Golden Age’s Medicine and Health Network. This is your host Florence Lawrence. Today we are broadcasting live at the Carnegie Library in the city now officially called ‘Toronto’. Then we have some interesting facts on the discoveries of health and medicine coming up. Specifically‚ there is a whole list on how medicine was originally found and the development of disease trends. Two of the discoverers who advanced in medicine and the
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The Great Qualities of Alexander Fleming In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ George and Lennie demonstrate many qualities of friendship. Three qualities that can help cultivate a sincere friendship are intelligence‚ bravery‚ and selflessness. Alexander Fleming was a biologist who lived from 1881 to 1955. Though his early education‚ and his achievements in his research‚ he lived out the qualities of intelligence‚ bravery‚ and selflessness‚ and therefore would have absolutely made for a very true
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Intestinal Worms You may know that if you eat undercooked meat from infected animals is the main cause of tapeworm infection in people. Tapeworms may sounds gross to you but little did you know intestinal worms can actually be good for your body. These worms help with our allergies‚ also work with our immune system‚ and not only do they do that but they also can be a therapeutic worm. Worms helping with our allergies just sounds like those words should not be in a sentence together but they should
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General Papers ARKIVOC 2006 (i) 109-118 Synthesis and primary antiviral activity evaluation of 3-hydrazono-5-nitro-2-indolinone derivatives Nalan Terzioğlu *a‚ Nilgün Karalı a‚ Aysel Gürsoy a‚ Christophe Pannecouque b‚ Pieter Leysen b‚ Jan Paeshuyse b‚ Johan Neyts b‚ and Erik De Clercq b a Istanbul University‚ Faculty of Pharmacy‚ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry‚ 34116‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey b Rega Institue of Medical Research‚ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven‚ B-3000 Leuven‚ Belgium E-mail:
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Sir Alexander Fleming Alexander Fleming is a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire‚ Scotland on August 6th‚ 1881. In 1999‚ the Times magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his discovery of penicillin. While penicillin is widely cited as one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century‚ uncertainty over whether or not Alexander Fleming actually discovered it caused many to question his 1945 Nobel
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Explain your answer a. They don’t‚ they have an antibiotic resistant. Antibiotics are there to kill and stop the growth of bacteria cells. The bacteria respond differently to the microbe. It can change its morphology‚ molecular components‚ gene expression‚
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Superbugs are becoming a big problem in the world‚ but what are superbugs? Superbugs is a bacteria that becomes resistant to antibiotic drugs they carry genes that are resistant to antibiotic drugs and cannot stop the bacteria from multiplying (Staff 1). You might know of superbugs by the term multidrug-resistant bacteria. This mostly happens when people overuse antibiotics and their body becomes immune to those drugs. In very severe cases people with extremely weak immune systems usually die if they
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