The nurse responsible for administering medications to the residents of a long-term care facility shows an understanding of the risk of injury this population experiences when
a. confirming the patient's identity prior to providing the medication.
b. assessing the patient for a history of drug-related allergies.
c. implementing the 5 rights of medication administration routinely.
d. educating patients about the purpose and side efforts of their medications.
C
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that 1.5 million ADEs and 7000 deaths occur in the United States each year secondary to medication errors. Older adults are disproportionately af-fected; more than half of the medication errors occur in long-term care facilities and more than 500,000 occur among ambulatory Medicare patients. Some references use the 6 rights of medica-tion administration.
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