NURSING 1140 |Pharmacology

1. Why do we do the 5 rights when giving medications? 2. How many patient identifiers do we need? 3. How do you give sublingual nitroglycerin 4. Benefit of giving a transder- mal patch? 1. right drug 2. right person 3. right dose 4. right route 5. right time To ensure patient safety We need 2 patient identifiers to ensure that it is the correct patient Have patient put medication underneath their tongue while sitting or lying down 3 doses within 15 minutes with each dose being 3-5...