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nelaaney

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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



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B, C, D

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B




nelaaney

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
Wow, this really help


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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