6 Rights or 5 Rights?

[picurn10]

of med administration? What does your school use? I'd always heard it as the 5-rights, but we are taught it's 6-rights, the last being "right documentation" is this a new things that they are moving to, or just our school?

also, are you taught to call patients "clients" "patients" or something else altogether?

Just curious what others do...

[180Chick]

At my university, we learned 7:

1. Right patient

2. Right drug

3. Right dose

4. Right time

5. Right route

6. Right reason (You, as a nurse, need to know WHY your pt. is receiving this and if there are any side effects or interactions with other meds. A lot of MDs will make mistakes sometimes, and if you administer it, it's YOUR butt -- not theirs).

7. Right documentation

Hope this helped! :)