A patient's health care provider wrote a prescription for an antibiotic for an upper respiratory infection.According to safe medication practice standards,the nurse should transcribe the order as which of the following?

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Follow practice standards when medications are ordered to prevent medication errors.For example,to make the decimal point more visible,a leading zero is always placed in front of a decimal (e.g.,use 0.5,not .5).On the other hand,do not use a trailing zero,a zero after a decimal point,because if a health care worker does not see the decimal point,the patient may end up receiving 10 times more medication than what is prescribed (e.g.,use 5 not 5.0).Always give fractions in decimal form.

A Patient's Health Care Provider Wrote a Prescription for an Antibiotic