The Rights
Verifying the patient's identity
What is the right patient?
Taking a Capsule with water
What is the oral route?
Something you use to clean the skin before administering an injection
What is an alcohol pad?
Not administering medication in the dining room
What is privacy?
Making sure cart is locked when out of eye sight
What is cart security?
Checking the medication label, name, strength, and dosage
What is the right medication?
Taking a Nitroglycerin tablet
What is sublingual?
Using your body natural defense to build resistance
What is a vaccine?
Raising the head of the bed to administer medication
What is proper positioning?
Example: spoons facing down
What is infection Control measure?
Examples: oral, intravenous, intermuscular, topical
What is the right route?
Administering a Fleets enema
What is rectal?
Typically how you would give insulin
What is subcutaneous?
The medical directive to legally crush and dispense medication
What is a crushing order?
Something you would do prior to handling medication
What is hand hygiene?
Tracking medication administration
What is right documentation?
Using a kangaroo pump for a bolus
What is a feeding tube?
Introduce at a 90 degree angle
What is intramuscular injection?
Not wanting the medication as prescribed or at the prescribed time
What is a refusal?
Administering 1 pill instead of 2
What is a medication error?
What is the right time?
Placing a lidocaine patch on a veteran's knee
What is transdermal?
Bypasses the livers 1st pass metabolism
What is intravenous injection?
Undesirable harmful effect resulting from a medication
What is a side effect?
Examples are Morphine are Gabapentin
What is controlled substance?