6 Right to refuse
(patient and nurse)
■ Are you able to exercise your clinical judgement and refuse to
give or omit the drug? Do you have a rationale for this and are
you able to demonstrate or explain this to others?
■ Do you know what action to take if the patient refuses the
prescribed medication?
■ Can you identify the barriers to medication administration
and identify suitable approaches to address them (dysphagia
or confusion, for example)?
Immediately before
administration