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    is a very common practice on my unit and it presents a myriad of issues and challenges particularly for those not well trained. The high error rate, which includes severe consequences for doing the procedure incorrectly, needs to be addressed with transparency, training and follow-up. AHRQ seems dedicated to raising the level of awareness of human medical error and finding ways to reduce the risk whether through process, policy or training. I believe they are playing a pivotal role in pushing…

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    The main argument in favor of mandating cognitive enhancements in the case of the cognitive enhancement Drug A would be the drugs ability to reduce medical errors by 20% and reduce the death rate by 5%. Any utilitarian argument would state that the value of saving a life is more important than any other moral argument against the use of the drug. However, the utilitarian argument fails to consider the consequences…

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    Introduction Medical errors and unexpected side effects occur relatively often in the hospital setting, where in 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that medical errors resulted in roughly 98,000 deaths per year, becoming the eighth leading cause of death for patients (Phillips-Bute, 2012). While this number is very alarming, the amount of public concern toward medical errors are nearly nonexistent, resulting in patients having little understanding of their rights when their health…

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    Wall of Silence Journal Entry One Medical errors occur every day whether it is from a nurse or physician and because of it’s occurrence, it is publicized and raises concern in the community. My level of awareness was little despite hearing stories on social media and from people around me. As I became a nursing student, I realized that medical errors happen more often from common mistakes that are preventable and nothing is done to solve it. Gibson and Singh (2003) mentioned, “hospitals and…

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    piece and leaving the other rings empty, to see if the baby would place that tricked ring on the pole. Evidently, the fifteen-month-old placed the trick ring on and realized it didn’t work and tried the other pieces. This method is known as trial and error. On the other hand, the eighteen-month-old baby was aware of the trick piece and avoided that piece altogether. Gopnik claims “as they got older and learned more about how the world worked, babies would behave entirely differently” (166). This…

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    into assignments providing quality patient care. An example of this learned outcome was demonstrated in the Risk Analysis and Implication for Practice 4377 Adverse Drug Event (ADE) assignment using current research to show that insulin medication error is the leading cause of hypoglycemia. However, the nurse must keep the patient’s values in consideration which was addressed in the Mock In-service video assignment for the Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare 4383 on informed consent, which was…

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    As the owner of a popular clothing establishment, it came to my attention during the weekly staff meeting that customer satisfaction was a concern the employees were voicing. This discussion led to the potential of performing a survey throughout our ten locations, which serve over two-hundred customer per day. The quandary is how we build this sample. When gathering satisfaction data from a population, such as the customers of a popular clothing store, surveys are very beneficial. However,…

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    Second, Brian learns to do new things by trial and error. Brian uses trial and error when he was making a bow and arrow. The author tells us that Brian tries to make a bow and arrow for hunting, but the arrow broke and mostly hurt his eyes. His first bow and arrow didn’t work as he thought, but he never gave up. In the…

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    Implications Medication Errors Have on Patient Safety With over 100 million people admitted to a hospital in the US, it is no surprise that patient safety is one of the top priorities, one of these priorities is proper medication administration. Picone, Titler, Dochterman (2008) found that 96% of all medication are preventable an alarming realization considering how common they occur. An analysis of medication errors reported by health care professionals shows how common errors are, how they…

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    In the healthcare world hundreds of thousands of patients die each year due to medical errors. Medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. With the great technological advances today, diseases that were believed to be deadly are being treated, so patients may live a longer, less painful life. The creation of treatments and cures should cause less death, yet patients who enter a healthcare facility are possibly already facing a greater risk of death compared to their…

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