What are some safety consideration regarding medication administration?

Answer 1

***MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION***TWO MAJOR RULES: Follow the RULE OF THREE and the FIVE RIGHTS.

RULE OF THREE: Check the bottle label/medication three times before giving the drug. When you pick up the medication and remove it from med cabinet, while you are preparing to give it, and when you give it.

FIVE RIGHTS: Must make sure that you have: the right patient; the right drug; the right time; the right dose; the right route (oral/rectal/vaginal/injection/sublingul/bucal etc...

In addition, they should monitor for allergic reaction, choking, and effect. <<>>

There is also a 6th right, right documentation, that is taught in my nursing program.

Answer 2

The nurse's first responsibility is to ensure the safety of the patient. After that, the nurse needs to report his/error. Always follow facility policy, but more than likely, you will report the error first to the physician and second to the nurse manager/charge nurse. An incident report/documentation of the error will also need to be completed.

Answer 3

There are 5 safety considerations and responsibilities that a health care provider should consider:

1. You must ensure that it is the correct patientyou are administering the drug to. You should double check the identity of the patient against all relevant documentation.
2. You must ensure that it is the correct medication that you are administering, again to the correct patient.
3. You must ensure that you are administering the correct dose of the correct medication to the correct patient.
4. You should ensure that you are using the correct route of administration, whether it be an enteral or parenteral route; with the correct dose of the correct medication to the correct patient.
5. Finally, you should ensure that you are administering the correct dose of the correct medication via the correct route to the correct patient at the correct time.

Answer 4

They are the monitoring of certain factors within the nurse's scope of practice before ,during, or after the administration of the medication.

Answer 5

When giving medication you need to know much to give and how ofter to give it.