Title: Describe the medications that the EMR may administer.
Course: Emergency Medical Responder (14055-IV) > Section: Understanding Principles of Pharmacology

Description should include

- the fundamentals of medication safety
- the forms and routes of medications that an EMR may administer during an emergency
- general pharmacological terms, including the names, indications, contraindications, side effects, actions, and common dosages of medications.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why do medications have multiple names, such as trade names, generic names, and brand names?
- What information should be given to medical control to obtain permission to assist a patient with his/her medication?
- What are the indications, contraindications, side effects, actions, and dosages of medications with which EMRs are allowed to assist?