Directions: for Each of the Following Medication-Related Errors, Select the Patient

question 7

Multiple Choice

Directions: For each of the following medication-related errors, select the patient "right" that was violated (select a, b, c, d, or e for each) . Use pharmacology text references if needed. After your selection, discuss the clinical implications and preventive measures you will take in your practice to avoid such errors.

-Ordered: Potassium Chloride (KCl) 20 mEq verbal order during a bedside emergency to be added to IV infusion solution, and atropine 0.5 mg to be given by direct IV (directly into the vein) . Both medications were prepared by Nurse A.
Given: KCl 20 mEq in syringe directly into the vein by nurse B, who was handed two unmarked syringes by nurse A, who verbally identified them.

• A) Right patient
• B) Right drug
• C) Right time
• D) Right dose
• E) Right route