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Module 1: Labels
Always check the label 3x
1. At time of initial contact
2. Again before preparation of medication
3. After prepping medicine
Know abbreviations!!!
LABEL COMPONENTS
- Trade name = assigned name by manufacturer, the brand name, not used by everyone
- Generic name = official name used by all companies
- Form = composition of a drug (tablet, suspension, capsule)
- Controlled release (CR)
- Sustained release (SR)
- Extended release (XR)
- Total contents = for multidose containers
- Unite dose strength (concentration) strength + form
- EX: 500 mg per tab; 50g per mL
- Route
- Expiration date
- Lot number
- Label alerts
- USP (united states pharmacopeia) Safety standards for medications; and National
Formulary (NF)
- Barcode
Controlled medications:
- Schedule I = highest risk for abuse
- Schedule II through V - prescribed for medical purposes
Tall Man letters for sound-alike, look alike drugs
- Used of mixed-case or enlarged letters to emphasize the differing portions of two drug
names
MODULE 2: Medication errors, rights of medication administration,
routes of administration, medication administration record
Medication Error = any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate
medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare
professional, patient, or consumer.
ISMP
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TJC
FDA: approved meds
DEA: schedules meds
QSEN
IOM (HMD)
What contributes to medication errors: failure to follow rights, calculation errors, lack
of assessment, look alike/sound alike, lack of knowledge, wrong transcription,
documentation error, abbreviations, incomplete delivery of meds.
REMEMBER: nurses can be held legally responsible for medications given, even if the
order or dose was in error.
6 RIGHTS of MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION (PRT triple D)
RIGHT…
1. Drug
2. Dose
3. Patient
4. Route
5. Time
6. Documentation
ALSO**
a. Reason
b. Education (for pt)
c. To refuse
Routes of Medication Administration
A. Nonparenternal (non injectable)
a. Ophthalmic (eye)
b. Otic (Ear)
c. Buccal
d. Topical
e. Oral
f. Enteral
g. Inhalation
h. Rectal
i. Vaginal
B. Parenteral (injectable)
a. Intradermal
b. Subcutaneous
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Module 1: Labels
Always check the label 3x
1. At time of initial contact
2. Again before preparation of medication
3. After prepping medicine
Know abbreviations!!!
LABEL COMPONENTS
- Trade name = assigned name by manufacturer, the brand name, not used by everyone
- Generic name = official name used by all companies
- Form = composition of a drug (tablet, suspension, capsule)
- Controlled release (CR)
- Sustained release (SR)
- Extended release (XR)
- Total contents = for multidose containers
- Unite dose strength (concentration) strength + form
- EX: 500 mg per tab; 50g per mL
- Route
- Expiration date
- Lot number
- Label alerts
- USP (united states pharmacopeia) Safety standards for medications; and National
Formulary (NF)
- Barcode
Controlled medications:
- Schedule I = highest risk for abuse
- Schedule II through V - prescribed for medical purposes
Tall Man letters for sound-alike, look alike drugs
- Used of mixed-case or enlarged letters to emphasize the differing portions of two drug
names
MODULE 2: Medication errors, rights of medication administration,
routes of administration, medication administration record
Medication Error = any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate
medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare
professional, patient, or consumer.
ISMP
Downloaded by madiba South Africa stuvia ()
, lOMoARcPSD|44532475
TJC
FDA: approved meds
DEA: schedules meds
QSEN
IOM (HMD)
What contributes to medication errors: failure to follow rights, calculation errors, lack
of assessment, look alike/sound alike, lack of knowledge, wrong transcription,
documentation error, abbreviations, incomplete delivery of meds.
REMEMBER: nurses can be held legally responsible for medications given, even if the
order or dose was in error.
6 RIGHTS of MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION (PRT triple D)
RIGHT…
1. Drug
2. Dose
3. Patient
4. Route
5. Time
6. Documentation
ALSO**
a. Reason
b. Education (for pt)
c. To refuse
Routes of Medication Administration
A. Nonparenternal (non injectable)
a. Ophthalmic (eye)
b. Otic (Ear)
c. Buccal
d. Topical
e. Oral
f. Enteral
g. Inhalation
h. Rectal
i. Vaginal
B. Parenteral (injectable)
a. Intradermal
b. Subcutaneous
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