Medical error

Workflow Design: Clinical Scenario The purpose of this paper is to explore a clinical scenario, answer pertinent questions, and list out the correct steps for administering an oral medication according to the “five rights” of the medication administration process (Edwards & Axe, 2015; Hunter, 2011). In addition, a workflow diagram was created to demonstrate the process from start to end. Scenario Analysis As healthcare providers, nurses are trained to follow the “five rights” of the…

Preventable medical errors are a major concern in healthcare today. Healthcare professionals today are knowledgeable and well-trained for the job at hand, however the healthcare system continues to be plagued by medical errors. Therefore, it is importance that healthcare providers, including nurses, call for new roles and new responsibilities to care effectively for patients and improve quality standards. Nurses, constituting the largest percentage of healthcare professionals, have the…

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MEDICAL ERRORS IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS The issue of an efficient healthcare service delivery by the National Health Service (NHS) and other healthcare providers has consistently occupied the first position amongst other objectives to be maximized by the government, healthcare organization, and the patient, this is due to several factors such reduction in cost of service delivery; increasing competition amongst healthcare service providers; quest to raise life…

But imagine yourself in a situation when you are seeking for medical help but they becoming the cause of the biggest problem will you ever trust the organization again? Probably no. Medical errors are a really serious issue. Although not always life threatening but can cause very serious health conditions. Medical errors are the third-largest killer of Americans (heart disease and cancer are first and second, respectively); these errors result in about 400,000 deaths and cost $1 trillion…

Unfortunately lab errors are so very common Dr. Mercola stated that in 1999 it was reported that up to 98,000 people die every single year due to medical mistakes, lab errors, etc. Now being that this was taken back in 1999 we have made many medical advances and we have taken more precautions to help bring down those numbers. Sometimes we are so busy and even let our egos get the best of us and we might think we know what’s wrong but the truth is you really never know fully what could be wrong…

apology, in the great sense, would have gone a long way. Medical errors are now the third leading killer in healthcare according to a Harvard study (Makary & Daniel, 2016). While I would challenge anyone that says mistakes are not human, that they are completely avoidable, I would counter that owning mistakes and learning from them is essential to improvement. Leilani Schweitzer (2013) relays after the death of her 14 month old son to a medical mistake, that instead of vilifying her, the…

Frederick S. Southwick (2013), a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, is the author of “Losing My Leg to a Medical Error.” In this article, a man, I will refer to as patient X, had pain in his left calf which initiated him to be admitted to the hospital to have an amputation procedure done above the left knee. Two months after continuous pain he was finally admitted to the hospital to receive an amputation above his left knee. The physician in charge of his case was unsure why…

General purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about medical errors. What are medical errors, why do we have them, and how can we prevent them. Thesis/Central Idea: Being able to be further well-informed about the health care system it is important to know both the successes and failures of medicine. So what are medical errors? Why do we have them? How can we prevent them? Introduction I. (Attention Getter) “To Err is Human”; to forgive, divine.”- Alexander Pope II.…

States there are approximately 7000 deaths per year related to adverse drug events (ADEs); furthermore, it is estimated that a hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication administration error per day (Koppel, Wetterneck, & Telles, 2008; Richardson, Bromirski, & Hayden, 2012). Medications errors usually end up extending patient stays by 1.74 days and cost the health care system billions of dollars each year (Koppel et al., 2008; Van Onzenoort et al., 2008). Most ADEs occur due to…

However, as a nurse it is important to realise these errors and correct them before harm is caused (Rafter et al., 2015). Furthermore, although errors are both part of medical practice and training many individuals who have roles in health care have claimed that to avoid the error from being repeated a process of reflection is required (Fischer et al., 2006). Thus why, these circumstances are important as they promote…