#76: Bulletproof Medication Administration

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In nursing school you’ve definitely learned the five rights of medication administration as a key component in keeping your patients safe. But if you want to go even further and truly understand all the factors that go into giving medication safely, then you’re in the right place my friend. In this podcast episode, I’ll talk you through the five rights of medication administration that all nursing schools teach. Then, I’ll add on an additional six that will take your critical thinking skills to the next level. By making these eleven guidelines a part of your routine, you will Bulletproof your medication administration practice. And who doesn’t love that? Want to take this knowledge with you to clinical? Download my cheatsheet here: https://straightanursing.ck.page/41fbe4fe50 Learn dosage calculations basics and kick math anxiety to the curb! Download the FREE guide including 10 practice questions right here. ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey everyone it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.3	podcast it is episode 76 and today we're going to talk about how you can
0:51.6	absolutely bulletproof your medication administration with the five rights.
0:58.0	So in nursing school, there's a lot of rules, and to be honest, some of them don't make that much sense to me
1:05.9	rules about tattoos the color of your shoes how long your hair is some of them just add a lot of unnecessary stress. But there are some
1:16.5	rules that I absolutely love because they're designed to keep both you and your patients very, very safe.
1:28.6	So few things in life are absolute, but I have to say, I think this one might be it is my favorite
1:35.7	rule of all of them and I believe in it so much that I'm going to say it again. If you follow the rules of medication administration to
1:47.9	the letter, you will not be able to make a medication error. Now, does that take a load off or what? So I am
1:58.6	going to go through all of these rules with you and we'll break them down one by one. So you'll hear a lot of
2:05.6	people say the five rights and those are the core five rights of medication
2:11.6	administration. I've actually got a list that goes up to I want to say
2:17.9	11 yes my list goes up to 11 but we're going to start with the five rights
2:22.4	because your school is definitely at least going to teach you five ways to bulletproof your medication administration.
2:29.2	And then we'll take it even farther with an additional six to really lock it in. So the five rights of
2:36.9	medication administration are the right patient, the right med, the right time,
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