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• Principles of Medication Administration -✓✓1. Mindfulness
2. Supporting abilities
3. Communication
• Minfulness -✓✓One of the principles of med administration that emphasizes
always remaining alert and focused and thinking about what you are doing.
• Supporting Abiliites -✓✓One of the principles of med administration that
emphasizes helping the pt function as independently as possible and encouraging
them to participate fully in the med admin process.
• Communication -✓✓One of the principles of med administration that emphasizes
reading the HCP order, pharmacy label, and med sheet, checking 5 rights, and
talking + listening to the pt while you are administering their medication; also
includes: listening, documenting, body language, facial expression, tone of voice,
speaking clearly, asking questions when needed.
• Respecting Rights -✓✓Pts have right to:
1. Confidentiality
2. Know what their meds are and the reasons they are taken
3. Know the risks associated with taking med
4. Know the benefits of the med
5. Refuse med
6. Be given med only as ordered by HCP
• Observation -✓✓The process of watching someone carefully in order to obtain
information.
• Objective Observation -✓✓Factual information you see, hear, feel, smell, or
measure.
, • Subjective Observation -✓✓Observations that come from working with a person
who communicates how they are feeling.
• Reporting -✓✓Giving spoken or written information of something observed or
told. I am responsible for making note of any physical or behavioral changes in pt.
• Immediate Reporting -✓✓Reporting without delay as soon as possible after a
change is observed; may prevent a small change observed from becoming a major
health issue and allows the appropriate treatment to be ordered ASAP.
• 911 -✓✓The person to call when:
-Pt falls and can't get up
-Pt complains of chest pain, has difficulty breathing, or is choking
-Pt is unresponsive
-MAP Con. recommends you hang up and call
• Poison Controll -✓✓The person to call when:
-Pt ingests a foreign substance such as detergent
-MAP Con. recommends you hang up and call
• MAP Consultant # -✓✓The person to call when:
-An occurrence (error) is made when administering med
-Med received from pharmacy seems different from HCP order
-I notice medication is different in color, size, shape, and/or markings from the last
time it was obtained
-I am not able to administer med based on the strength of med received from
pharm
• Prescribing HCP -✓✓The person to call when (*a pt screws up/is affected):
-Med is refused
-Med is not available from pharm
-There are no refills left
-A med parameter for notification has been met
-MAP Con. recommends you hang up and call
-An order is missing the pt's name, dose, med, frequency, route, or date and the
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-Allergic reaction, sick/side effect