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A patient in your care is on regular oral morphine sulphate. As a qualified nurse, what legal checks do youneed to carry out every time you administer it, which are in addition to those you would check for every other drug you administer?

  • Check to see if the patient has become tolerant to the medication so it is no longer effective as analgesia.

  • Check to see whether the patient has become addicted.

  • Check the stock of oral morphine sulphate in the CD cupboard with another registered nurse and record this in the control drug book; together, check the correct prescription and the identity of the patient.

  • Check the stock of oral morphine sulphate in the CD cupboard with another registered nurse and record this in the control drug book; then ask the patient to prove their identity to yo