NURSING NIGHTMARES

Preventing Medication Mishaps

From people to pets and plants, some principles apply

Patricia Hodge
3 min readApr 29, 2024

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A colorful batch of medications in pill, capsule, and caplet forms.
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

Note: This isn’t a primer for nurses. We already know what a beast medication management can become. This is the first of several articles exploring different aspects of medications for the general population. If it prevents one dangerous act of mishandling medication

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Patricia Hodge

Doctor of Nursing Practice, retired nurse practitioner in psychiatry. Mom, grand-mom, pet-mom. Lifelong learner, advocate for the underdog, lover of life.