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Article: Medication administration: the implementation process of bar-coding for medication administration to enhance medication safety.($uccess $tory)
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- Nursing Economics
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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MEDICATION administration is a critical skill of the professional nurse, who must understand and follow various steps in the drug administration process to assure patient safety. This process consists of the "Six Rights" of medication dosing. If followed, this systematic process can effectively decrease the incidence of medication errors. The nurse needs to be sure that he/she is delivering the right drug, to the right patient, at the right time, at the right dose, per the right route, and for the right reason. After confirming each right, the nurse should ask, "Is there any reason not to give this patient this drug?" (McGovern, 1988). Upon giving the medication to the patient ...