Which of the following is NOT one of the six rights of medication administration?

• A. Right temperature
• B. Right dose
• C. Right route
• D. Right patient

Answer: (A)

The essential idea here is the set of standards used to keep medication administration safe. The six rights are: the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route, the right time, and the right documentation. Each right is a checkpoint to catch errors before a med reaches the patient: confirming the patient’s identity, ensuring the correct medication, confirming the correct amount, delivering it by the intended method, giving it at the proper time, and recording it correctly.

Right temperature isn’t one of these standard checks. Temperature can be important in other ways—some medications require proper storage temperature, and a patient’s fever or body temperature might influence clinical decisions—but it’s not part of the six core rights you verify at the bedside before administration.