Drug Administration
What is one of the most important and most dangerous duties for a medical assistant?
What is drug administration.
What are a set of safety checks the medical assistant must follow to prevent errors and ensure patient safety when administering medication?
What are the rights of medication administration.
Which right entails that you compare the name of the drug or vaccine in the patient's chart to the label on the container?
What is right drug
What are medications that are put in the mouth and swallowed called?
What is oral administration
What are parenteral medications called?
What are medications given by injection.
What do you need to know to administer drugs safely and effectively to all patient groups?
What are principles of pharmacology.
Which right of medication administration consists of the medical assistant comparing the dose on the order in the patient's chart to the dose you prepare?
What is right dose
Which right are you using when you double check the administration route with the provider's orders?
What is right route
What are the four types of medications for oral administration?
What are tablets, capsules, lozenges, and liquids.
What are the two basic parts of the syringe?
What are the barrel and the plunger
What should you know prior to administering a drug?
What is the indications, effects, side effects, contraindications, drug interactions, and potential adverse effects.
Which right entails checking the name and date of birth on the chart with what the patient tells you?
What is right person
Knowing the reason a medication is administered is what right?
What is right reason
What is the area between the cheek and gum called.
What is buccal
Which injection is given almost parallel to the skin?
What is intradermal
What should the physician be aware of before administering ant medication?
What are drugs and drug allergies.
Which right is the patient using when refusing a drug or vaccine?
What is right to refuse
Which right entails educating the patient about the medications they are receiving?
What is right to know.
What is the area under the tongue called?
What is sublingual.
What injection provides a slow sustained release of medication?
What is subcutaneous
What should you locate and inspect prior to giving an injection?
What is the injection site.
Which right entails making sure a medication is given before or after meals or specific hours of the day?
What is right time.
Which right requires you to use the proper technique?
What is right technique
Why do medications given the buccal route or sublingual route produce a more therapeutic effect?
What is because the medication does not pass into the stomach or intestines before absorption.
What injection is used when a patient requires rapid medication absorption?
What is intramuscular