Medication Administration Case Study

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Sometimes kids know best, and this time that was true, but speaking up to tell a school nurse didn't help an eight-year-old girl, instead it landed her in the hospital.

Charity, a second grader at Harrison Elementary school in Davenport, Iowa, takes daily medication, with one half of a pill taken at school, and seven more pills at home after being born to a heroin addicted parent, according to WQAD.

Charity went to the school nurse to take her medicine like she always does, but this time was different:

"It was the wrong pill. She said take it or go the principal's office."
The girl listened to the nurse and took a strangers pill when she was told to. Her grandfather, Ron Voorhies found out what happened when Charity had a bad reaction to the the medicine that the nurse made her take. The …show more content…

Joan Jutting, the district's nurse manager, sent a letter to the grandfather admitting a mistake in the Five Rights For Medication Administration happened, saying changes would be made. The list of policies that would be followed included:

*Traffic flow of students will be reduced down to 1 person at a time in the designated medication red box area. Other students will wait in the hall until able to come in for meds.

*A small section of floor immediately in front of the medicine cabinet was taped off by red tape where the one student is to stand for the medication.

*Computer will be open to students health record that provides name of child, med order and amount of dose, right below the medicine cabinet

*Nurse administering the med will be the nurse performing the 5 Rights of Medication Administration. This includes asking the child's first and last name prior to administering the

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