00:00
So what can we do for
a person with psychosis
or a person who has
schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
00:09
It's really important
that we have medications
that do make a very
positive impact on the lives
of persons with
schizophrenia disorder.
00:19
Also, there are environmental
strategies that we can put into play
that will help people to
do better in their life.
00:29
So let's think about I
mentioned it earlier,
some routes of medication
administration.
00:35
When we think about
medication administration,
we know that people can take oral pills,
we know that they can have patches,
we know that they
can get injections,
we know there are suppositories.
00:47
We want to be thinking
about antipsychotics.
00:50
And antipsychotics
can be taken orally.
00:55
And they also can be taken IAM
as long acting injectables.
01:01
They also can be inhalation.
01:05
That way they go intranasally,
they can be done under
the tongue sublingually.
01:11
They can be put in the cheek,
we have patches that
we can put on skin
and we also have
rectal suppositories.
01:20
So we have to be thinking about all
possibilities depending on our patient.
01:27
There are persons who
have schizophrenia,
who also ended up
having a stroke.
01:33
Because they have a stroke does not mean
that we don't medicate them anymore.
01:37
If they can't swallow,
we have to find another route.
01:41
There are persons who have schizophrenia
who have other medical diagnoses.
01:47
We have to really be thinking about
how do we get them what they need.
01:51
How can that be done?
So let's think about those five original
rights of medication administration.
02:00
All right, we want to think
about the drug itself,
we want to think about the client,
we want to think about the dose,
how are we going to give it and
what time are we going to give it.
02:13
So these are the five rights
of medication administration:
drug, client, dose,
route and time.