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Unit 2

Lesson 1

ENGLISH MEDICATION

IIN NOVIANA, M. PD
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route.

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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route.

Medication routes and forms

Forms
Forms are official documents
with spaces where you write
information.
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

Medication routes and forms

route
Route is the way that
medicine is put into the
body, e.g. by mouth, into a
vein.
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

Why is it important to remember the “ FIVE RIGHTS” of

medication? Right patient
Right medication
Right route
Right time
Right dose

 To stop mistakes.
 The patient might suffer side effects.
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

What are the ROUTES do you know ?

 muscle , eye , ear , nose , rectum , skin , vein ,

mouth , tongue (under)
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

ointment

a soft cream that you rub into your

skin, especially as a medical
treatment
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

capsules
a plastic container shaped like
a very small tube with medicine
inside that you swallow whole
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

drops
a very small amount of liquid that
falls in a round shape
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

IV drip

(= intravenous drip) medical equipment

that is used to put liquid directly into
your blood.
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

injection
an act of putting a drug into someone's
body using a special needle
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OBJECTIVES
• Know the limbs and joints of the body.
• Practise giving a patient simple instructions after a surgery.

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

inhaler
a device containing medicine that you
breathe in, in order to make breathing
easier
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

suppository

a small piece of solid medicine that is

placed in someone's rectum or vagina
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

tablets

a small round hard piece of medicine

which you swallow
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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

syrup

thick sticky sweet liquid

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OBJECTIVES
• Understand medication routes and forms.

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

LOOK, LISTEN AND REPEAT

spray
liquid which is forced out of a special
container in a stream of very small drops.
 Understand medication routes and forms.
OBJECTIVES •

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

Patient heart problem ear infection nausea skin rush

Katy 

Ted 

Mrs. Fox 

Ali 

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 Understand medication routes and forms.
OBJECTIVES •

• Practise choosing the correct medication form and route

Patient Medication Form Route

Katy tablets mouth

Ted drop ear

Mrs. Fox capsules mouth

Ali injection vein

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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Dizziness
Dizziness the feeling of being
unable to stand steadily.
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Diarrhoea

Diarrhoea is an illness in which

waste matter is emptied from the
bowels much more frequently than
normal, and in liquid form
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Headache
Headache is a pain which you feel
in your head.
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Nausea
Nausea the feeling that you have when
you want to vomit, for example because
you are ill/sick or are disgusted by
something
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Skin Rash
Skin Rash a lot of red spots on the
natural outer layer of a person's
body
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Swelling
Swelling a place on your body that
has become larger or rounder than
normal as the result of an illness or
injury.
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Vomiting

Vomiting means to bring food from

the stomach back out through the
mouth
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Tremors

Tremors is a slight shaking

movement in a part of your body
caused, for example, by cold or fear
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Constipation
Constipation is the condition of being
unable to get rid of waste material
easily.
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Drowsiness

Drowsiness is the feeling of tiredness

or sleepiness
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Explaining possible side effects

OBJECTIVES •

• Helping a patient manage medication

Side effects
assisting patients with medication

Loss of Appetite

Loss of appetite you have no desire

to eat, even though you may not
have eaten enough to supply your
body with its basic needs.
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