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    The document outlines the 10 rights of drug administration which are: 1) right patient, 2) right medication, 3) right dose, 4) right route, 5) right time, 6) right documentation, 7) right history and assessment, 8) right drug-drug interaction and evaluation, 9) right to refuse, and 10) right education and information. It provides details for each right such as checking the patient's identity, medication labels, dosages, routes of administration, times, documenting properly, checking for allergies and interactions, allowing patients to refuse, and educating patients.

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    The document outlines the 10 rights of drug administration which are: 1) right patient, 2) right medication, 3) right dose, 4) right route, 5) right time, 6) right documentation, 7) right history and assessment, 8) right drug-drug interaction and evaluation, 9) right to refuse, and 10) right education and information. It provides details for each right such as checking the patient's identity, medication labels, dosages, routes of administration, times, documenting properly, checking for allergies and interactions, allowing patients to refuse, and educating patients.

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    10 Rights of Drug Administration

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    Dinosaur Todoroki
    The document outlines the 10 rights of drug administration which are: 1) right patient, 2) right medication, 3) right dose, 4) right route, 5) right time, 6) right documentation, 7) right history and assessment, 8) right drug-drug interaction and evaluation, 9) right to refuse, and 10) right education and information. It provides details for each right such as checking the patient's identity, medication labels, dosages, routes of administration, times, documenting properly, checking for allergies and interactions, allowing patients to refuse, and educating patients.

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    10 Rights of Drug Administration - Confirm appropriateness of the

    dose using a current drug


    reference.
    1. Right Patient - Calculate the dose and have
    - An important step in administering another nurse verify.
    medication safely is being sure the
    medication is given to the right
    client. 4. Right Route
    - Check the name on the order. - Check the order written in the
    - Read the physician's orders to chart.
    make sure for whom the medicine - Dilute the drug it indicated.
    is ordered. - Know the right method of giving
    - Use TWO Patient Identifiers drugs.
    - Ask the patient to identify - Know the abbreviations used to
    himself/herself. designate the route of
    administration e.g. IV, IM, PO,
    2. Right Medication - Confirm if the patient can take or
    - Read the physician’s orders to receive the drug by the ordered
    study the correct name of the route.
    drug.
    - If the order is not clear consult the 5. Right Time
    attending physician. - Check the frequency of the drug.
    - Check the medication label - Confirm when the last dose was
    - Check the written order given.
    - BEWARE of sound alike and look - The nurse must know why a
    alike drugs. medication is ordered for certain
    - Look for the color, odor, and times of the day and whether the
    consistency of the drug. Unusual time schedule can be altered.
    characteristics of the drugs that - Medication that must act at certain
    should be questioned. times are given priority. Give the
    medicines according to the action
    3. Right Dose expected.
    - Read the physician's orders to - Know the common approved
    know the correct dose. abbreviations.
    - Consider the age and weight of
    the patient. Time of abbreviation
    - This may help to find an error in
    physician's orders. ac – before meals
    - Know the minimum and maximum pc – after meals
    dose of the medicine tid-with meals – three times a daily
    administered. Calculate the with meals
    fraction dosage correctly. bid – twice a day
    - Know the abbreviations and tid – three times a day
    symbols used. q6h – every six hours (four times a
    day)
    q4h – every four hours (six times a - Provide enough knowledge to the
    day) client of what drug he/she would
    q3h – every three hours (eight be taking and what are the
    times a day) expected therapeutic and side
    q2h – every two hours (twelve effects.
    times a day)

    6. Right Documentation
    - Documentation after giving the
    medication.
    - Is an important part of safe
    medication administration.
    - It should clearly reflect the client’s
    name, the name of the ordered
    medication, the time, dose, route
    and frequency.
    - Sign medication sheet immediately
    after administration of the drug.
    - Use the standard abbreviations in
    recording.
    - Record the effects observed.
    - Record the medications that are
    vomited or refused by the patient
    and those drugs that are not
    administered and the reason for
    not giving the medication.

    7. Right History and Assessment


    - Check client's history to drug
    interactions and allergies.

    8. Right Drug-Drug Interaction and


    Evaluation
    - Review medications previously
    given or diet that can yield bad
    interaction to the drug to be
    administered. Check expiry date
    also.

    9. Right to Refuse
    - After explaining the purpose and
    explaining the effects, the client
    has the right to refuse.

    10. Right Education and Information

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