In the UK, the NHS-prescribed medications for children come with a standard-sized spoon or measuring cup and sometimes an oral syringe.

We do have one Care Home that uses measuring cups instead of spoons, and insists we put it just in "mls" Otherwise, I would always convert to spoonfuls! They had to be moistened on the back to make the glue work so there was a special label licking device.

As a Tech who trained in the late 80s in hospital I find my standards as a Tech are higher than those who train in retail ie I always capitalise the quanity and frequency and also use ONE capsule to be taken . The Ipsen Educational Exchange (IEE)-STEP curriculum aims to support nurses across primary and secondary care in understanding prostate cancer.

If you have a very young baby you can dribble it in slowly so the spoon doesn’t surprise them, but you have a toddler is that right? With EPSr2 on Proscript you have the option to repeat a previous script if the drugs are the same so that you don't have to rekey the doses. This Greek survey investigated the variations in the size of household teaspoons to assess whether there would be differences in the doses taken by individuals from different households due to the size of their teaspoons.The first tea was grown in the UK in 1999 to put the ‘English into English Tea’ and the most British tea in history was first sold in 2005. I think they train them a bit better, and with any luck the really bolshy, truculent ones don't get through the course.

A teaspoon is 5ml, so if you have metric measuring items, such as a measuring jug or even a clean medicine cap, you can do a quick measurement that way.

Maybe things will improve with Technciain registaration as after all we are all equal now, wherever we trained? Everyone else in healthcare seems to be "so rushed" and "busy" that it is left to us to do things properly. Another day working for the shoe company, which I like, actually, apart from the airconditioning which dries my eyeballs out , but that's another story.