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Medication Harm: Five Rights and Where They Break | Episode 86
This episode opens a five-part series on medication harm, taken setting by setting: the hospital, the nursing home, the patient's home, and the particular category of drugs used as restraint.
Michelle Carroll starts with the five rights every nurse learns in the first week of school, right patient, drug, dose, route, and time, and reframes them as a map of where medication errors break. Right dose causes the most serious harm. Right time is where quiet harm hides, in the dose given four hours late or the anticoagulant that dropped off an order set during a transfer.
She walks the seven…
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