Before administering a medication, the nurse must verify the rights of medication administration, which include:
1) right patient, right room, right drug, right route, right dose, and right time.
2) right drug, right dose, right route, right time, right physician, and right documentation.
3) right patient, right drug, right route, right time, right documentation, and right equipment.
4) right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time, and right documentation.
Question 2
Laboratory test results indicate that warfarin anticoagulant therapy is suddenly ineffective in a patient who has been taking the drug for an extended time.
The nurse suspects an interaction with herbal medications. What type of interaction does she suspect?
1) Antagonistic drug interaction
2) Synergistic drug interaction
3) Idiosyncratic reaction
4) Drug incompatibility
The surgical nurse assists the client into the correct position
Vaginal drug administration: (b) using an applicator to instill a vaginal cream
Intradermal drug administration: (a) cross section of skin showing depth of needle insertion Source:
) Intramuscular drug administration: (d) the needle is removed and the puncture site is covered wi
Self-administration apparatus
NCC MERP Index for categorizing medication errors algorithm.