6 Rights of Medication Administration

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What are the 6th right of medication?

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Patient

Medication

Route

Dose

Time

Right to refuse?

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right pt.

right route

right med.

right time

right dose

right documentation

this is what I was taught.

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Specializes in Critical Care / Psychiatry.

We were taught 8 rights...

Right patient

Right med

Right dose

Right time

Right route

Right to know about med

Right to refuse med

Right documentation

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Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

I was taught that the sixth Right is Right patient education.

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betsy1963 said:
What is the 6th right of medication?

1. Patient

2. Route

3. Dose

4. Time

5. Medication

6. Reason

7. Documentation

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Specializes in Cardiothoracic Transplant Telemetry.

All of those that have been posted are correct. For my program we were taught that documentation was the 6th, but that various hospitals were adopting various versions

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Yeah, what nightcrawler said. I think it just depends on your textbook/instructor/facility.

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manna said:
Yeah, what nightcrawler said. I think it just depends on your textbook/instructor/facility.

We were also taught an unofficial ninth: Right equipment (meaning the correct type of syringe etc.) But the 8 were the "official" ones.

Edited to add: Our 8 rights are:

Right Drug

Right Dose

Right Client

Right Route

Right Time

Right Documentation

Right to refuse

Right indication

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klone said:
Patient

Medication

Route

Dose

Time

Right to refuse?

The 6 rights are:

Patient

Medication

Route

Dose

Time

Documentation

Wendy

Formerly known as FutureLPN

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"PM TuRD and follow with paper" Right Patient, Right Med, Right Time, Right Route, Right Dose and then document.

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The right to take one for us...

You know...

1 for you...

1 for me...

:rotfl:

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