(Claffey, 2018) The best way to reduce the risk of medication errors is to enquire about which orders wouldn't be appropriate to give to the patient based on their condition. (Claffey, 2018) In addition to successfully completing a physical assessment on the patient, the practitioner must also view the patient holistically, and always report near-miss medication errors. (Claffey, 2018) Given that nurses are the ones administering the medication, they should be able to justify as to why the patient is receiving the drug and if it is safe for the patient to be given that specific dosage. (Claffey, 2018) As technology evolves, having an electronic entry for medication may perhaps help reduce the risk of many errors in a busy environment. (Claffey,
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 84(5), 308–318. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.01.018 Running Head: Annotated bibliography 3 The specific aims of this journal are cultivate strategies to a methodology and tools, which is for clinical decision support systems in order to reduce the occurrence of medication administration errors. Moreover, the writers revealed there is seemed undervalue their necessity for support to the medication administration decision support tools by nurses’ evaluation as well as their actual performance. Navas, H., Graffi Moltrasio, L., Ares, F., Strumia, G., Dourado, E., & Alvarez, M. (2015). Using mobile devices to improve the safety of medication administration processes.
As a student, one of my competency to achieved to become a professional nurse is medication administration. Since medication error can kill, there is the need to be vigilant at all time in dispensing under supervision. I have managed to disperse quite a few times but occasionally get muddled with the whole process by doing little errors and the pace at which I administer needs to be faster due to factor of time and the amount of patient lined up for medication. I have noticed some errors that needs to back up all the time. I have discussed with my mentor {and all areas of weakness have been recognized as a great opportunity for improving my experience in medication administration.
Medication error is not something new in healthcare service. Researchers had identified medication error is the high numbers of incidents involving nursing practice. Thus, a proper and well designed organizational system should be in place for the process of administration of medication to minimize and prevent errors. Medication happens when there is a failure in the system. To my surprise when I did the write up for this paper I had came across many clinical practice guidelines on medication safety.
The Nurse's Role in Prevention of Medication Errors Many of the main job duties of a nurse revolves around medication and medication administration. With that being said, one of the most common errors in patient care has to do with medication administration. There have been many changes made to reduce the errors that are made during the medication administration process, however there are still medication errors occurring. Nurses are not solely to blame for all medication errors but they do play a crucial role because they are the last person doing a safety check before that medication gets to the patient. Nurses go through extensive training on medication checks during nursing school, as well as, during the orientation phase of where they are employed.
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Drug administration remains a traditional task of nurses which involves significant responsibility (Armitage & Knapman 2003, cited by Tang, Sheu, Yu, Wei & Chen, 2007) and should be given attention as such in order to reduce mistakes. Indeed, medication errors are even more common nowadays, since the numbers of medications available on the market for prescription increased. Additionally, technological advancements helped to increase the routes for medication, where nurses are provided with different pumps, tubes and valves which make nurses more susceptible to errors in drug administration (Tang et al.,2007) since different pump models have different settings and need different tubing. There are multiple contributing factors to medication error of which some may
Knowledge and assessment skills are required to improve the patient safety (4, 17-19). Clinical pharmacist can play an important role in nurse training as an effective method to reduce food-drug interactions in hospitals (18). However, we found that patients who instructed by nurses were also at high risk for potential food-drug interactions. It means that they do not pay enough attention to nurse recommendation. But they should know that communicating with physicians and pharmaceutical consultants seems to be an effective ways to preventing food-drug interaction interactions (19).
). This high incidence of medication error should be our primary focus because medication administration has a very big role and is an important part of the nurse’s role. Studies have also shown that interruptions to nurses during administration of medications have been a big factor to an
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