Safety Procedures of administer drugs

When you administer drugs, you must follow certain safety roles, which are also known as “the Five Rights.”

These rules should be carried out each time you give a drug to a client.

The Five Rights
- Right medication. Compare drug card, medication sheet or drug kardex (client’s medication record) three times, with label on drug container. Know action, dosage and method of administration. Know side effects of the drug.
- Right client, check the client’s identification-Name, Age, Bed number, and ward/door number.
- Right time
- Right method/route of administration
- Right amount/dosage- cheek all calculations of divided dose with another nurse.

Application of Nursing Process
- Assessment /Data base
- Assess route for drug administration
- Assess specific drug action for cheat
- Observe for sign and symptoms of side effects or adverse reactions
- Assess need for and accuracy of drug calculation

Planning /setting objectives
- To administer medications using correct route
- To determine appropriate drug actions
- To identify when side effects or adverse reactions occur
- To accurately calculate drug dosages.

Implementation /Intervention
- Preparing for drug administration
- Creating a rapport with the patient
- Assembling necessary equipment
- Converting medication
- Calculating dosage as appropriate
- Following the five rights
- Using the unit Dose system
- Using the Narcotic control system

Evaluation /Epected out comes
- Medications are administered by correct route
- Medication action and side effects are identified
- Drug dosages are calculated accurately

Different Routes of Drug Administration
♦ Oral
♦ Topical
♦ Parentral
- Intradermal
- Subcutaneous
- Intramuscularly
- Intravenous
♦ Rectal
♦ Vaginal
♦ Inhalation