For Each of the Following Medication-Related Errors, Select the Patient

Multiple Choice

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 intravenous (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