Medication Administration Flashcards
To ensure safe administration of medications the nurse must be aware of the seven rights of medication administration. These are the right:
- Person
- Medication
- Dose/amount
- Route
- Time
- Reason
- Documentation
What is the term given to an unexpected effect of a medication?
Adverse effects.
A nurse administers medication to a patient. Who has the ultimate responsibility for the medication to be administered correctly?
The registered nurse. (?)
While the nurse is administering medication, the patient states, “this pill looks different to what I usually take.” What is the correct practice in this situation?
Go and recheck the medication, taking it with you.
A nurse administering medications has many responsibilities including knowledge of pharmacodynamics. Pharmacodynamics is best described as:
The effect of the drug on the body (what the drug does to the body).
A nurse needs to document that a medication has been administered under the tongue. What term would they use?
Sublingual.
The prescription for a patient instructs the nurse to administer flucloxacillin 250mg po QID. How and when is the medication administered?
Orally, 4 times a day.
