Author Question: The nurse can prevent medication errors by following which principles? (Select all that apply.) ... (Read 24 times)

nelaaney · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

The nurse can prevent medication errors by following which principles? (Select all that apply.)

a. Assess for allergies after giving medica-tions.
b. Use two patient identifiers before giving medications.
c. Do not give a medication that another nurse has drawn up in a syringe.
d. Minimize the use of verbal and telephone orders.
e. Use trade names instead of generic names to avoid confusion.

Question 2

What is the most important role of the health care worker in preventing drug errors?

a. Always checking the patient's diagnosis before giving a drug
b. Always following the eight rights of drug administration
c. Being the one defense for detecting and preventing drug errors
d. Being most likely to detect a drug error that has occurred