Therefore, it is preferable that nurses only prepare the
medication that is to be used directly in their own time
shifts, or better yet, that preparation be performed in the
pharmacy. The hospitals should be encouraged to adopt the
unit-dose system to alleviate the burden of nurses preparing
drugs. The unit-dose is a system of drug distribution in
which a portable cart containing a drawer for each
patient’s medications is prepared by the hospital pharmacy
with a 24-hour supply of the medications (Mosby 2009).