Before admin
What are the 7 Rights of Medication Administration?
What is the Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time, Right Reason/ Assessment, Right Documentation
What is the most common intramuscular site for injection?
What is Ventrogluteal
Any predictable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm.
What is a Medication Error
What does Bid stand for?
What is twice a day
How many milligram is equivalent to a gram?
What is 1 gram
How many times should you check a medication before administering it?
3 Times
What are some different routes by which medication is administered?
What is Orally, rectally, topically, intramuscular, nebulizer, inhaler, intravenous, sublingual
What does SALAD stand for?
Sound Alike Look Alike Drugs
What does prn mean?
What is as needed
1000 ML is equivalent to how many cc's?
What is 1000 cc
What are two ways to identify a patient?
Ask name and date, check identification band
A type of IM injection technique used for irritable medicines and to prevent leakage of the medication into the subcutaneous tissue
What is the z-track method?
What factors can contribute to medication errors?
Provider fatigue, workload and time pressures, ineffective communication between health care team member, inattention/distraction
What does O.U. stand for?
What is both eyes
What is 98.6 F in Celsius?
What is 37 Celsius
What medications must be double checked by another nurse?
Insulin, IV meds, Narcotics, high alert medications
Do you rub the injection site after administering heparin?
No
The process of keeping track and list all medications a patient is taking in an attempt to reduce duplication, omissions, dosing errors, or drug interactions
What is Medication Reconciliation
What does STAT mean?
What is Immediately
1 pound is equivalent to how many kilograms?
What is 2.2 kilograms
Verbal/ Telephone orders must be signed within ____
What is 24 hours
What oral medications cannot be crushed?
Enteric Coated Medications
Taking multiple drugs concurrently
What is polypharmacy?
What does NPO stand for ?
What is Nothing by mouth
How many micro gram is equivalent to a milligram?
What is 1 milligram