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| Six Rights of medication administration |
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Definition
RIGHT Medicine
RIGHT Resident
RIGHT Dose
RIGHT Route
RIGHT Time and Date
RIGHT Documentation |
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Definition
CHECK as you take the medication out of the drawer.
CHECK before you pore or punch the medicine.
CHECK as you return the medication to the drawer |
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Term
| Safe Positioning - Oral Medications |
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Definition
| Sitting in an upright position, allows the swallowed medicine to go easily into the esophagus. |
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Term
| Safe Positioning - Eye Drops |
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Definition
| Sitting or lying with head tilted back (Use ring finger or little finger only to pull down bottom lid of eye, make pocket, and don't touch tip to anything, Increases likelihood of going in the eye instead of on the cheek, |
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Term
| Safe Positioning - Nose Drops |
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Definition
| Sitting or lying position with head tilted back, helps the medicine stay in nose rather than running down the back of the throat. |
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Term
| Safe Positioning - Nose Sprays |
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Definition
| Sitting up with head slightly forward. |
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Term
| Safe Positioning - Rectal Suppository |
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Definition
| On left side with right knee flexed, allows suppository to be placed as far up into the rectum as possible and makes it more likely to retain suppository. |
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Term
| Safe Positioning - Vaginal Medicines |
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Definition
| On back with knees flexed, allows medicine to be placed as far into the vagina as possible for treatment of the entire vaginal vault. |
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