The 7 rights, every route of administration, documentation done right, and the abbreviations that are actually dangerous to use.
Knowledge, hands-on skills, and professional behaviors โ all covered in this chapter.
Tap a card to flip open the definition.
Run through this before administering any medication to any patient.
Split below into what you'll actually administer as an MA, and what you should just recognize.
These are mostly injection routes, covered in more depth elsewhere โ included here so you can recognize them in orders and charts.
A complete order needs every one of these pieces.
Every entry should answer all five.
A medication error involves one or more of these.
When in doubt, spell it out โ but here's the standard shorthand.
From the ISMP's official "Do Not Use" style list โ these look-alikes cause real medication errors. Here are the highest-yield ones to know.
The little details that actually matter for compliance and safety.
The chapter summary, broken into digestible sticky notes instead of one giant paragraph.
All the answer choices are laid out below โ just tap the one you think is right.