The 7 Rights
Before administering, this check confirms you have the right patient
What is the Right Patient?
Giving medication to the wrong patient is an example of this error type
What is a patient identification error?
Medicines given under the tongue are adminstered via this route?
What is sublingual?
Nurses must obtain this from the patient before giving a medication?
What is informed consent?
This hormone-based medication lowers blood glucose levels
What is insulin?
This 'right ensures the drug is given at the appropriate time intervals
What is the right time?
Misreading a poorly charted written order is an example of this type of error
What is a prescribing error?
This injection route is used for vaccines and involves a 90-degree angle
What is intramuscular (IM)?
This nursing body or council governs your scope of practice
What is the New Zealand Nursing Council?
This oral medication is the first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes
What is metformin?
This 'right' is about making sure the drug is suitable for the patient's diagnosis
What is the Right Medicaton?
This strategy involves two nurses checking a high-risk drug before administration
What is independent double checking?
Medications that should not be crushed
What is enteric-coated or extended release?
If you make a medication error, you must do these three things
The main risk of insulin therapy if too much is administered
What is hypoglycaemia?
Drugs, which by the nature of their name/appearance, are involved in a high percentage of medication errors or other adverse outcomes
What are 'Sound Alike, Look Alike' Drugs?
The angle at which to insert a subcutanous needle in most adults
What is 45 - 90 degrees ?
What is the Nursing Council of New Zealand Code of Conduct?
This type of insulin acts within 15 minutes of injection
What is rapid-acting insulin?
Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time, Right documentation, Right Reason
What are the Seven Rights of Medication Administration?
The 'five second rule' in medication safety refers to doing this before giving the drug
What is pausing to re-check the 7 rights and confirm details?
The reason you should rotate subcutaneous injeciton sites
What is to prevent lipodystrophy?
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (HPCA)
What is the act that ensurews nurses are competent and fit for practice?
This newer class of diabetes medications works by causing the kidneys to excrete excess glucose
What are SGLT2 inhibitors?