Acronym help???????

Can someone give me an easy acronym to remember the six rights of medication administration? I do well with acronyms.

LOL - for us it was the '5' rights:

Right Patient

Right Medication

Right Dose

Right Time

Right Route

LOL - for us it was the '5' rights:

Right Patient

Right Medication

Right Dose

Right Time

Right Route

The 6th is (or was taught to my class) Right Documentation

I can see why - although not actually taught as a 'right' to us, it was still very much emphasized. In clinical, we had to have the computer in the room, opened up on the patient's MAR and log in everything as we did it.

Can someone give me an easy acronym to remember the six rights of medication administration? I do well with acronyms.

its really stupid but i just memorized the first letters-PMDTR , i had to know this for an EMT exam, i got it right too. haha.

it works for me :)

In nursing school we learned the 7 rights of med administration

Right Patient

Right Medication

Right Dose

Right Time

Right Route

Right Documentation

Right to Refuse

TRAMP...Time, Route, Amount, Medication, Patient

DANG!! We had to know TEN rights of med admin!

patient

drug

dose

time

route

documentation

pt's right to education

refuse

right assessment

reason

For us it was TPR MD (Time-Patient-Route-Medication-Dose)

I like this because TPR (vital signs) and MD are medical in nature.

I thought about the additional 5 and came up with DR. ERA (Documentation-Reason-Education-Refusal-Assessment).

We used DR. TIM.

Dose

Route

Time

Individual

Medication

Tramped

Time route adminstration patient education documentation

Patients Do Drugs Round The Day

Patient, Drug, Dose, Route, Time, Documentation

This thread is so interesting!! I start NS in the fall so I'm unsure of how my school will handle the rights, but through my employer I was trained using the 5 rights:

Right Person

Right Medication

Right Dosage

Right Route

Right Time

There is always a huge emphasis on documentation and refusal but I always just think of them as necessary post-pass documentation. I'll have to keep them in mind as "rights" going forward!