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Natalija [7]
3 years ago
5

a physician who wants a patient to inject a medication under their skin may write ____________ on the prescription.

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1 answer:
Nana76 [90]3 years ago
3 0

The Physician may write Sub-Q on the prescription.

As a Physician, while attending to a patient, you are permitted to use professional abbreviations while writing prescriptions.for patients.

Abbreviations are used during prescriptions to save time and limit drug abuse by patients

When a physician wants a patient to inject a medication under their skin, abbreviations such as Sub-Q can be written in the prescription note.

Sub-Q is used because is means subcutaneous.

Subcutaneous route of drug administration is a parental route of medication and are administered to the layer of skin referred to as cutis, just below the dermis and epidermis layers.

Therefore, the Physician may write Sub-Q on the prescription.

Learn more about drug administration here:

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