flush a peripheral heparin lock - Quality assurance - The five rights of medication administration

- The nurse should flush a peripheral heparin lock every 8 hours (if it wasn’t used during the previous 8 hours) and as needed with normal saline solution to maintain patency.

- Quality assurance is a method of determining whether nursing actions and practices meet established standards.

- The five rights of medication administration are the right patient, right drug, right dose, right route of administration, and right time.

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