Rights of drugs administration
Before administration of any medication or drugs a nurse should follow
following rights of drugs administration.
The basic and very important rights of drugs administration are:-
1. Right Patient :-
- Check patient identification bracelet.
- Ask patient to state their name and date of birth.
- Compare medication order to identification.
- Verify patient allergies with chart of patient.
2. Right Medication:-
- Read the physician order for correct name of drug.
- Always check medication label with physician order.
- Follow verbal order only in emergency.
- Never administere medication prepared by another person.
- Never administered medication that is not labelled.
3. Right Dose:-
- Read physician order for medication dose.
- Compare medication order with prepared dose.
- Know the abbreviations and symbols used.
- Consider the age and weight of the patient.
4. Right Time:-
- Read the physician order for time of medication administration.
- Know abbreviations, time order in relation to food intake.
5. Right Route :-
- Check physician order.
- Confirm that patient can take prescription medication by the ordered route.
- Follow aseptic techniques.
Mostly above 5 rights of drugs administration (5R) is very important
according to university examinations but I want to add some other rights
like:-
Right Education:-
- Inform the patient purpose or reason of medication administration.
- Provide education about desired effects and side effects of drugs.
- Answer the question of patient properly.
Right Assessment:-
- Properly assess patient and tests to determine medication action safe or not.
- If unsafe then immediately call to doctor or notify physician.
Right Evaluation:-
- Assess patient condition for any adverse effect or side effect.
- Assess effectiveness of medication.
- Compare patient prior status with post medication status.
- Document patient response to drug.
Right Documentation:-
- Never document before medication administration.
- Documentation:-
• Dose.
• Route.
• Time
• Signature of nurse etc.
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