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1. Identify critical skills that are required for nurses
to safely administer medications. Provide a
rationale to support your response.
The nurse has to know rights of administration of medication such as:
patient identification, medication, dosage, time, and route
2. Discuss critical nursing interventions related to client safety that must be
performed when administering medication. Provide a rationale to support
your response. Nurse intervention:
Verify any medication order and make sure it's complete.
Check the patient's medical record for an allergy or contraindication to the prescribed
medication.
Prepare medications for one patient at a time.
Educate patients about their medications.
Follow the right rights of medication administration.
A nurse administered medication to a client after confirming
that his name was Phillip. When returning to the nurse’s station, the nurse
realized that she gave the medication to the wrong client. What important nursing
intervention regarding medication administration was not applied in the situation?
The nurse did not apply “the right person”, here nurse has to check if the information
have in system are the same as on the client’s wrist bandage.
After made mistake has to check vital signs and call provider then complete incident
report
3. When preparing to administer the client’s morning medication, the nurse
noticed the order was for digoxin 5mg and the dosage on hand is 0.5mg. What
important nursing intervention regarding medication administration was not
applied in this situation? What should the nurse do?
Here there is no “right dosage” so the nurse has to hold the digoxin and call
provider and complete incident report