You are preparing to gibe medications to your patient. She has 10 oral medications due at 0900 plus eyedrops. You have verified the physician’s orders with the MAR. There is one medication you do not recognize, and you have looked it up. As you begin to prepare the midcation, you are interuppted twice by other staff members with questions. You feel like you are scattered rather than focused as you begin preparing the medications. You notice that one of her medications is not provided in the exact unit of measurement that it is ordered. Yopur patient is receiveg two blood pressure medications and a cardiac glycoside.
Determine what steps you need to take to prepare these medications and the order in which you will perform them.