6 Rights of Medication Administration

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What are the 6th right of medication?

Specializes in Critical Care / Psychiatry.
JamieB said:
"PM TuRD and follow with paper" Right Patient, Right Med, Right Time, Right Route, Right Dose and then document.

Cute way to remember them!

Thanks!

Shel

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we were taught the 5 rights with 6&7 possible:patient, med, time, route, and dose... possibly document and right to refuse

In the Perry & Potter Fundamentals of Nursing book, it teaches that the right "documentation" is the 6th right.

we were taught the five rights, and that's whats in our text, Craven's Fundamentals of Nursing....

Dose

Route

Time

Pt

Med

I've never heard of 6 or 8 rights, for that matter....

at our school they taught the basic five rights with the possible sixth being the right form of medication ie. capsule, liquid, etc.

We were also taught 5 rights, but with 3 checks.

'5 rights'- patient, drug, dose, time and route.

'3 checks' - Drug contraindicated, patient allergy and drug interactions.

We have the ten rights at our school (and the list keeps growing)

Dose

Route

Time

Pt

Med

Documentation

Vitals

Labs

Allergies

To Refuse

After I explained the "ten rights" as opposed to the "five rights" to a nurse I was helping he decided to throw in a couple of new rights....

Right on red

Two wrongs do not make a right

Two rights do not make a wrong

Three right turns makes a left. :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

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yes...the sixth is DOCUMENTATION !

Right to refuse

Specializes in LTC.

1.Right Patient

2. Right Drug

3. Right Dose

4. Right Route

5. Right Time

6. Documentation

and of course Right of Patient to Refuse

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
betsy1963 said:
What is the 6th right of medication?

We use E-Mar. It is wonderful. We scan the med and scan the armband and walah ! At first it made me really nervous because I was so used to doing the 5 "R"s. After 2+ years of E-Mar all I worry about now is making sure I document all my PRN's and results.

Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

How about the patient right to have meds managed BY A NURSE?

I say this after reading one thread tonight regarding a movement to have CNA/CMA/UAP pass meds without having any nursing judgement, just a brief orientation/training period.

Yes, I think a patient has A RIGHT to safe med administration.

What do you think? Should this be a patient right?

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