MAR
This document lists all the medications a resident is currently taking.
What is the MAR?
Giving a medication to the wrong person is called this.
What is a medication error?
This “right” ensures the person receives the medication that was prescribed to them.
What is the Right Individual?
PRN stands for this.
What is “as needed”?
This is required before starting a health-related activity.
What is a physician’s order?
This is how you document immediately after giving a medication, never before.
What is put your initial on the appropriate date and time?
You must do this if you make a medication error.
What is report it to the nurse/supervisor immediately and complete a UIR?
This “right” ensures you’re giving acetaminophen 500 mg, not 325 mg.
What is the Right Dose?
This is the minimum time you should scrub your hands during handwashing.
What is 20 seconds?
Use this part of the body when checking blood sugar.
What is the sides of the finger and rotate fingers?
This abbreviation means a medication is to be given “as needed.”
What is PRN?
Not documenting a medication you gave could be considered this.
What is a medication error or falsification of records?
This “right” prevents giving a med at the wrong hour or too early.
What is the Right Time?
After giving a PRN, this must be done within a reasonable time.
What is for effectiveness and document?
Do this when out with a person and they start having symptoms but you are not able to check if it is low or high blood sugar.
What is treat the person as having hypoglycemia or low blood sugar?
If a medication is not given, this must be documented on the MAR.
What is your initials circled and the reason for omission/refusal?
One common cause of medication errors.
What is not following the 6 rights of medication administration?
This “right” refers to the label and matching the name of the med.
What is the Right Medication?
Hand sanitizer is acceptable unless this is visible.
What is visible dirt or bodily fluids?
A seizure is caused by sudden abnormal activity in this organ.
What is the brain?
Before administering a medication, you must confirm this between the label and the MAR
What is the right individual, right medication, right dose, right Route, right Time and right Documentation?
This must be completed when a medication was not administered.
What is an incident report / UI?
This “right” ensures the medication is taken in the way it's supposed to be.
What is the Right Route?
Giving a PRN medication without this can be considered a med error.
What is documenting the reason and outcome/effectiveness?
You do the following as the first aid for seizures
What is Note the time, Be sure there is nothing right around the person's neck, Turn the person on their side, Place nothing in the person's mouth, DO NOT try to hold the person down, Offer comfort, reassurance as needed?