As part of nursing education, students learn about the ‘five rights’ or ‘five R’s’ of medication administration

As part of nursing education, students learn about the ‘five rights’ or ‘five R’s’ of medication administration, which serves as a guide to upholding patient safety during clinical medication administration. “These are the five important patient safety principles: administering the ‘right patient,’ the ‘right drug,’ through the ‘right route,’ at the ‘right time,’ and in the ‘right dose.’ (Hanson & Haddad L, 2024). At least two of these were violated during this nursing handoff. According to medical literature, one-third of all medical errors that cause harm to hospitalized patients occur during the medication preparation and administration phase, primarily nursing activity.