Professionals like doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and others are well prepared on when to medicate patients. It is important to be familiarized and understand about the pharmacodynamics of the medication. Also, it needs to be understood medication need, how and when to give it, dosage and possible side effects. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, 2009), medication error accounts for 1.3 million injuries each year in the United States due to the wrong drug, dose, timing of administration, or wrong route of administration. Always keep in mind that route of administration varies depending on health conditions.…
The first thing I would do is to make sure that the medical staff is visually evaluating the medications in order to ensure their reliability (“Joint Commission and CMS crosswalk”). Second, I…
Unit 3 FRQ Part A: In a lot of folk cultures, males do most and the work and are in charge of most of the decision-making. In more popular culture, females are gaining more power and more say of what goes on in their life. With globalization, this trend of women receiving more say should spread and may even take over some folk cultures. It’s known that in folk cultures women are known as a lot less than men are.…
Medication errors are a costly and frequent problem that has been occurring in those who are hospitalized, about one third of these errors occur during medication administration (Bonkowski, J., Carnes, C., Melucci, J., Mirtallo, J., Prier, B., & Reichert, E., 2013). To address this problem a new form of technology called Bar code medication administration (BCMA) has been implemented in several different health settings. Bar code medication administration is being used among a variety of hospitals across the United States. About 28% of hospitals were using the bar code medication administration technology along with the electronic medication administration record (eMAR). The purpose of these new technologies is to replace paper documentation and hand written dose…
Managing medications for these patients thus becomes an important safety issue. A way of managing these medications is through medication reconciliation. In medication reconciliation, a member of the health care team compares the medications a patient should be using to the new medications that are ordered for the patient and resolves any inconsistencies and discrepancies (The Joint Commission, 2017). The NPSG intends to help organizations decrease the amount of medication errors and negative patient outcomes related to medication discrepancies. Therefore, standards were created in the NPSG that focused on risk points of medication reconciliation such as maintaining and communicating accurate patient medication information, patient education on safe medication use, and coordinating information during transitions of care (The Joint Commission,…
Hello, Amber~~ 10 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that unnecessary deaths each year due to preventable medical errors up to 98,000 people. This report assessed from $ 17 billion to $ 29 billion has the cost of such errors. Some estimated 1.5 million medication error prevention cost for a full year, up to $ 3.5 billion to the hospital. While more than 25,000 medication errors, there are occurs, such as both look-like and alike similar drugs in in the four-year period. In order to decrease errors, The Joint Commission promote to the organization has launched a program designed in 2002, National Patient Safety Goal program, which was to address specific issues related to patient safety.…
If nurses are unsatisfied and do not trust the new system, medication errors are going to continue to…
Health care facilities and hospitals report that they have been able to develop and adopt safe protocols and procedures to effectively reduce medical errors. These protocols and procedures are often similar to those developed by the Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). For example, two AHRQ grantees have participated in activities of the Wisconsin Patient Safety Institute, which developed a Medication Safe Practices Manual to help guide safe medication use. Examples include alerts for medications with a high potential for harm if not managed appropriately and guidelines on the use of standard…
Electronic Medication Administration Record and Patient Safety One of the reason medication related deaths occur are due to medication errors (Karen, 2011, p. 1). In fact, within the United States, approximately 7,000 people die each year due to medication errors (Karen, 2011, p. 1). According to Karen (2011) 1.3 million medication errors occur yearly, which relates to several injuries and approximately one death a day related to medication errors in the Unites States (Karen, 2011, p. 1). One major cause of medication errors can be explained using the medication administration process (Mccomas, 2014, p.590). When a health care provider is responsible to administer a medication, there are approximately 50 to 100 steps involved in this process…
Statistics also state that nearly 1% of hospital admissions have an adverse drug event (Runciman, Roughead, Semple, & Adams, 2003)As a graduate nurse looking to continually improve and develop my practice I need to develop strategies that will help me progress towards this goal. This goal will help to prevent some of those adverse drug event and prevent some of the medication admissions entirely. Being in a position that is directly responsible and accountable for the administration of the medications in a lot of the cases means that I need to continually strive to improve and maintain a high level of medication management. I have already mentioned a few strategies that I believe will help me to continually develop those skills to a desired level. familiarising myself with the medication will help to reduce the risk of a medication error slipping through and effecting the patient.…
Hospital Strategies for Reducing Errors Hospitals are now working to reduce medication errors by the implementation of technology improving processes, identifying the medications errors casing the most harm, and creating an environment of…
I am exploring, in a group of college students with learning difficulties the following questions: 1) What do these students do when they read? 2) What are their beliefs about reading as a tool for academic success? and 3) What they belief about themselves as readers.…
The patient survey recorded positive comments. The also study noted a reduction in the number of medication errors and an increase in the patient’s sense of involvement and knowledge of care…
Identification of medication should include frequency, dose, and documentation of any changes occurring throughout all healthcare encounters. The list should be used to compare the physician’s admission, transfer, and discharge orders in an organized manner, thus making recognition of discrepancies apparent before the list is communicated to the next healthcare provider or patient (Daly, 2013). In addition to the above definition, other errors related to medication would be: not properly listing the route, possible adverse interactions, and wrong administration form (i.e., pill vs. oral…
Case Study 1 – Medication errors and strategies for prevention 1A) Factors that can contribute to medication errors may include lack of knowledge, non-adherence or neglect of proper medication protocol and human error due to tiredness and fatigue. According to recent research, inadequate knowledge in pharmacology such as administration routes and dosage calculations was one of the most important reasons for the occurrence of medication errors (Shahrokhi, Ebrahimpour & Ghodousi, 2013). A strategy for preventing this occurrence would be to implement periodic education programs for nurses, enabling nurses to consolidate and further expand and improve their knowledge of both the current and continuous new supply of drugs. In an attempt to prevent medication errors due to the factor of human error, the improvement of proper managerial and organisational preparations such as the moderation of work hours and appropriately adjusting the nurse to patient ratio are some strategies to be considered. This may ultimately reduce the factor of tiredness due to excessive overtime work, limiting the space for human and medication errors.…