Please help!!!

[vega4you]

Is there anyone know this?

"medications which need to be checkec by two professional nurses prior to given them"

Please help.....

[BacktotheBeach, ADN, BSN, RN]

I know insulin is one.

[vega4you]

Do you know what types of drugs need to be given like that?

Is there any rule?

[BacktotheBeach, ADN, BSN, RN]

I believe I have heard this is true of heparin and chemo drugs.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

I generally don't do others homework, but insulin and heparin come to mind. Blood products technically are meds and must be double checked. And in good facilities, chemotherapy and cancer biologics must be double checked, including all therapeutic calculations/protocols regarding those meds.

Some facilities require IV narcotics to be double checked as well as IV potassium. Insulin, potassium, insulin, and morphine are the major drugs listed for serious medication errors.

In addition, applicable only to nurses that give research meds, many research meds/test meds must be double checked.

Coumadin in some places is a double check.

Now, continuous infusions of narcs/sedatives/vasopressors should be double checked as do PCA settings, but often are not.