Rights of Medication Administration
When is the first medication check completed?
What is comparing the medication label with the MAR before removing it from storage?
What are Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs?
When should medications be documented?
What is immediately after administration?
You accidentally crushed and gave your patient a tablet that was enteric-coated. What is the mistake?
What is crushing an enteric-coated tablet?
What are side effects?
What is undesired effects of medications that are not the drugs intended purpose?
What is the purpose of the double-check process for high alert meds?
What is preventing potential fatal dosing errors?
Which section might tell you to avoid drinking alcohol while taking the medication, or warn you against activities like driving?
What are the drug warnings?
What should be documented if the medication is refused by the patient?
What is the reason for the refusal and documentation?
If the doctor orders a dose of 10mg but you misread the decimal and administered 100 mg, you committed a dosing error. What dangerous practice often leads to this specific mistake?
What is trailing zero?
True or False. You should stop taking antidepressants ASAP if you start experiencing side effects?
False. Consult your HCP first.
What are the standard 5 rights of medication administration?
What is right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time?
True or False. It is safe to use a household kitchen spoon to measure liquid medicine?
False. Also use dosing cup/syringe included with the medicine.
What is a fundamental principle of nursing documentation?
what is; if it wasn't documented, it wasn't done?
Arnold Crew, Tylenol 80 mg q4 hours. What is missing?
What is no route?
What does the abbreviated term ADR mean?
What is an adverse drug reaction?
How do you ensure you are giving a medication to the right patient?
what is always ask the patients name and date of birth or confirm on the pts ID bracelet?
What does PRN stand for?
What is as needed?
What should be documented after administering a PRN medication?
What is the patient's response to the medication and time given?
A pt. turns red, flushed, and itchy while receiving IV vancomycin. What mistake did the nurse make?
What is infusing the vancomycin too rapidly?
This occurs when one substance, food, or medication changes how another medication works in the body.
What is an interaction?
Which of the 7 rights of medication administration has the nurse verify that the ordered drug amount matches the drug on hand?
what is right dose?
What is the name of how to give a medication examples include, IV, IM, SUBQ, PO.
What is the route?
What does document in real time mean?
What is as soon as possible after the care is provided ?
Doctor calls in a phone order for a pt in need of pain management. The nurse says ok and hangs up. What is the mistake?
What is didnt read the order back?
OTC NSAIDS taken along side blood thinners can cause this dangerous risk?
What are stomach bleeds/internal bleeding?