Answer:

1. One of the recommendations to reduce medication errors and harm is to use the “five rights”: the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route, and the right time.

2. A. Calculate the proper dose for a child when given the adult dose of a drug using the following methods:

-Nomogram Method (Using a Child's Body Surface Area)

-Friend's Rule (Using the Child's Age in Months)

-Young's Rule (Using the Child's Age in Years)

-Clark's Rule (Child's Weight in Pounds)

-Parkland's Burn Formula

B. Calculate the proper dose for a patient given the recommended dose of a drug.

Explanation:

1. They are merely broadly stated goals, or desired outcomes, of safe medication practices that offer no procedural guidance on how to achieve these goals. Thus, simply holding healthcare practitioners accountable for giving the right drug to the right patient in the right dose by the right route at the right time fails miserably to ensure medication safety.  -Judy Smetzer, Vice President of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)