Checking In with the Standards

• Nursing students are accountable to their educational institutions and placement organization (CNO).
• While students initially learn safe medication administration through classroom and lab instruction, learning all of the components and pharmacology can take weeks or even semesters.
• Foundational training, guided by Ontario’s College of Nurses standards and adopted nursing textbooks, culminates in supervised clinical practice.
• The “3 checks” and “10 Rights of Medication Administration” best practice that is widely taught in nursing and pharmacology courses is central to this learning. It ensures students verify critical factors like the correct patient, medication, dose, time, and route to enhance patient safety and minimize errors in medication administration.

For more detail, refer to
Safe Med Admin CNO and 10 Rights of Medication Administration (4).docx
(Condensed from CNO.org)