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Medication round

Meaning in nursing, with examples

nounCore term

In nursing, medication round means: The set times of the day when a nurse takes the medicines trolley around the ward and gives patients their prescribed medicines.

In Turkish: ilaç turu, ilaç saati

How it is used

Also called 'drug round' in the UK and 'med pass' in the US. There are usually morning, lunchtime, teatime and night rounds. To reduce errors, many wards ask staff not to interrupt the nurse on the round, sometimes marked by a red 'do not disturb' tabard.

Example sentences

  1. I'll come and help you with the bed bath after the medication round.

  2. The 10 o'clock medication round took over an hour today.

Common collocations

  • do the medication round
  • morning medication round
  • interrupt the medication round
  • medication round trolley
  • administerTo give a medicine or treatment to a patient, by any route, according to a prescription or protocol.
  • medication chartThe form or electronic record where a patient's medicines are prescribed and where nurses sign for each dose they give or do not give.
  • five rightsA checklist nurses use before giving any medicine: the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route and the right time.
  • doseThe amount of a medicine given at one time, such as 500 mg, or the total amount given over a period.

More terms: Medication Administration

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