Title: Document medication errors.
Course: Medication Aide (14051-36)

Documentation should include

- knowledge of the five wrongs
  - wrong client
  - wrong medication
  - wrong dose
  - wrong time
  - wrong route

- information required on a medication error report form.

See VBON student handouts 5.1D—5.2.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Who should be contacted in the event of a medication error?
- What are the consequences of failing to correctly document?