1. Who can you contact if you have questions about medication administration?
Answer: A MAP Consultant.
2. What are the three principles of medication administration?
Answer: Mindfulness, Supporting Abilities, and Communication.
3. What is mindfulness in medication administration?
Answer: Remaining alert and focused, thinking about what you are doing.
4. What is supporting abilities in medication administration?
Answer: Helping individuals function as independently as possible and encouraging them to participate
fully in the medication administration process.
5. What is communication in medication administration?
Answer: Reading the HCP order, pharmacy label, and medication sheet, checking 5 rights, and talking
and listening to the individual while administering their medication.
6. What rights do individuals have when it comes to their medications?
Answer: Confidentiality, knowledge of their medications and the reasons they are taken, knowledge of
the risks and benefits of the medications, the right to refuse medications, and the right to receive
medications only as ordered by their healthcare provider.
7. What is observation in medication administration?
, Answer: The process of watching someone carefully to obtain information.
8. What is objective observation?
Answer: Factual information that can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, or measured.
9. What is subjective observation?
Answer: Observations that come from working with an individual who communicates how they are
feeling.
10. What is reporting in medication administration?
Answer: Giving spoken or written information about something observed or told.
11. When should you report a change in an individual's condition?
Answer: Immediately after observing the change, without delay.
12. Who should you call in case of an emergency?
Answer: 911 or Poison Control.
13. Who should you contact if an occurrence (error) happens when administering medication?
Answer: A MAP Consultant.