1. Match the following scenarios to the rights they uphold:
Right medication
Right amount
Right time
Right route
Right patient
Right documentation
Right to refuse
Right room
a. Not one of the s
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1. Match the following scenarios to the rights they uphold:
Right medication
Right amount
Right time
Right route
Right patient
Right documentation
Right to refuse
Right room
a. Not one of the seven rights
b. Checking the patient’s identification band and asking the client to state his name
c. Consistently giving a daily “ac” medication before the client eats breakfast
d. Carefully compare the dosage ordered with the dose on hand (the unit-dose packet)
e. Holding a medication if a patient is nauseated and doesn’t want to take it
f. Calling to question giving a medication orally when the client has trouble swallowing
g. Comparing the drug ordered with the label on the package, bottle, or unit-dose pack
h. Recording the time and dose of an IM pain medication with the route, and location
2. To properly identify a patient before giving medications the nurse should
a. Ask the patient if the medications in the cup look familiar
b. Ask the patient to tell you their name and date of birth, & validate this by checking their name band
c. Ask the patient to show you their driver’s license
d. Ask a visitor to validate the patients identity
3. If a medication is ordered by trade name but the pharmacy sends up a medication that has a different, unfamiliar name, the nurse should
a. Have a peer confirm that this is the right medication
b. Look up the generic name of the ordered medication in a drug reference manual to confirm that these are the same medications, then give it as ordered
c. Use the patient’s supply of medication from home
d. Hold the medication until the trade name version of the medication is brought up
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