Medication Errors: A Case Study

7 / D.P7: Explain how different procedures maintain health and safety in a selected health or social care setting

Every profession has liability; which is every professional’s nightmare. Most liabilities can be prevented, while some happens without a profession’s awareness. All pharmacists must be aware of their standard of care, in order to avoid any risks of statements of malpractice. Pharmacy malpractice falls within the common law concept of negligence. In a pharmacy malpractice lawsuit, the elements of the case must include the following: the pharmacist had a duty of care, the pharmacist breached the duty of care, the breach proximately caused harm to the patient, and damages are the result (Milenkovich).

During my clinical day three, I demonstrated entry-level competence in professional nursing practice in caring for patients with multiple and/or complex unmet human needs. I addressed safety needs, safety in medication administration, effective communication, and surveillance for my patients. First, I addressed safety needs my ensuring the appropriate safety measures were implemented for the patients. Some of the safety measures included, wearing non-skid socks, wearing a yellow armband which indicated fall risk, keeping the bed in lowest position, two side rails up, bed locked, and the call light within reach.

Incidents and mistakes that occur during the period of administering medication goes on to be a big safety issue for patients in health institutions and hospitals globally.

This article define medication errors and when occur these medication administration errors (MAEs) such as one or more of the seven rights of medication administration (right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, right route, right reason and right documentation) are violated. Moreover, the writers suggest study more about nurses’ knowledges with and perceptions on preventing MAEs through this journal.

Safety provi¬sions are interpreted to protect patients from illnesses caused in the course of medical treatment as well as to provide hygienic and injury-free experience in the health care setting. Special provisions exist for safety in pharmaceuticals, blood supply, infectious disease treatment and diagnostics, and mental health services, among others. Ethical codes for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers contain provisions applicable to the patients’ right to safety. Medical errors and other actions that fail to meet safety standards can carry civil, criminal and administrative penalties

According to estimates, at least 1.5 million preventable medication errors and adverse drug events occur each year in the United States. One-third of all medication errors occur during the administration phase of medication delivery (Durham, 2015). Medication safety is freedom from preventable harm with medication use; therefore, nurses must promote patient safety by understanding their contributions to the prevention of medication error (Choo, Hutchinson, & Bucknall, 2010). Additionally, a medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional. Thus, to promote medication safety, nurses must understand their roles in proper medication management and identify challenges that associated with medication safety.

Delivering the right care at the right time in the right setting is the core mission of hospitals across the country. To helping PATIENT improve the quality of care they deliver every day. So by providing information and assistance on how to improve care and by working with manger of hospital, doctor, nears and research agencies to create a policy environment on which quality and safety

It is the belief of many medical professionals that proper safety protocols in the medical environment is paramount. There is nothing more important in a hospital setting than overall safety. This goes for both patient safety as well as the safety of the hospital staff. Both patient and staff have their own precautions that must be taken and steps that must be followed to ensure there are no mishaps.

Under the heavy workload of nursing care, accidents are easily to cause. It is avoidable for nurse to reduce the accidents by enhancing the quality of care and be awareness on patient safety. During my practicum, there are some incidents that have not fully aware of patient safety on the nursing practice. When they take care of patient, they often forgot the practice of preventing harm from patient which influences the practice.

Patient safety improvement program is a policy implemented by the Department of Veteran Affairs North Florida/South Georgia. The policy promotes a safety environment for patients and establishes a guideline that would provide a better care for patients ,staff, visitors and family members. Guidelines under this policy are focused on identifying sentinel events or events that could result in patient harm or death, Identify the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and set Sentinel Event Alerts that would decrease the risk of future events. Sentinel events happen often in institutions such as hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare centers. Joint commission (2013) provides the following examples of sentinel events: patient death, paralysis, coma, associated with a medication error, patient committing suicide within 72 hours of being discharged from a hospital, hospital performing wrong invasive procedure or operating on the wrong patient body site or on the wrong patient, maternal death, perinatal death, infant having a birth weight greater than 2,500 grams, abduction of the

Patient safety is a vital part of our health care system; it helps define quality health care. A challenging issue is keeping our patients safe because medical errors in the workplace can and they do happen. Who is responsible for taking proper measurers to ensure patient safety? Is it the nurses, physicians, administrators, society or patients themselves? All these entities are responsible for making sure the patient has the safest possible outcome. Medical errors are prone to happen so this worldwide issue will never be completely resolved however we as nurses need to make sure we are taking all appropriate actions to minimize the mistakes being made so that we are not putting our patients at risk.

Patient safety has received much recognition after the Institute of Medicine’s publication of “To err is to human: building a safer health system” , patient safety includes the avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse events emanating from health care delivery procedures and it comprises of systems of patient care, error reporting, and starting new systems aimed at reducing risk of errors in patient care as well as care functions which nursing has sole responsibility (Berland et al., 2012). The common media for the transmission of HCAIs are the hands of healthcare professionals, from patient to patient and within the care environment (Allegranzi & Pittet 2009). Patient safety is the ‘’patient’s freedom from unnecessary real or potential

As once thought of as mere assistants in the healthcare field, nurses have emerged as patient 's primary care and safety providers. From the evolution of the nursing profession comes two essential themes: patient safety and nurse advocacy. The primary goal for nurses is to provide the best safety for a patient so that they may get the best care possible. Nurses have become advocates for change, adopting new techniques and treatments while ensuring the safety of the patient is upheld and uncompromised. As the role of nurses continues to expand, it is important to remember how the profession has developed and be open-minded to new advancements. Patient safety is a team effort between all healthcare staff and should be held to the highest of standards to ensure patient care is the best it can possibly be at all times and to all

Healthcare employee safety is very important and should be a high priority. In the healthcare setting the employees must pay attention to his or her surroundings. This essay will include several objectives such as injury prevention, emergency readiness, and training. Keeping the employees safe is not easy while working in the environment full of dangers. I will discuss the importance of employee training, personal safety, safety slogans, environmental safety and informational posters.