Medication Safety
Prior to administering a medication, a nurse should do this.
What is go through the rights of medication administration.
The medication must have one of these one it prior to administering it
What is a label
You must do this with your patient prior to medicating them.
What is state two patient identifiers?
While administering a medication, it is important that the nurse do this.
What is only administer medications they have prepared.
Medications generally have two of these.
What are names: generic and brand name
The nurse would do this immediately after drawing up medications in a syringe.
What is label it.
The MAR and the physician's order must match this based on the paitent's history.
What is the right dose?
It is important to identify these prior to administration.
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
When a nurse gets distracted and is called out of a room when administering medications, it is important that they do not do this.
What is leave medications at the bedside.
Medications are called this when they are similar.
What is look alike/ sound alike medicaitons.
The MAR must be documented with these three things
What is time, date and intials of administrator
The insulin is ordered AC and QHS.
What is the right times of insulin dosing?
When the nurse recognizes an error, they must do this
What is check the order in the MAR and compare it to the physician's order in the chart?
When an IV pump is used, it is important that the nurse still do this.
What is calculate the correct dose and time of the medication to be administered.
The nurse needs to know this about every medication that is administered to the patient.
What are side effects.
These account for 7000 deaths in hospitals every year.
What are medication errors
A nurse has to determine if the patient can tolerate this
What is the right route of administration?
It is important that the nurse do this prior to every medication administration process.
What is wash their hands.
The total ml to be delivered by an IM injection.
What is 3ml.
Hospitals decide which abbreviations are accurate to use. True or False
What is false
These are the 6 rights of medication administration.
What is patient, medication, time, route, dose, and documentation.