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

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

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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....

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

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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.

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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 !

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Right to refuse

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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.

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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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