Medication Errors in Nursing
Errors are a basic component of human life; they come from natural cognitive processes and adaptation of behavior. Proper excursion of medical procedures is the core piece of the healing process as well as the major component of nursing practice as a discipline and they all revolve around the patient safety. Medication errors can adversely increase the cost of treatment and affect the patient’s safety.
Administering medication to patients is a very critical role of nurses. In this process, errors can occur unintentionally yet have far-reaching consequences, with the end result being increased mortality, increased medical expenses and prolonged duration of hospitalization. Several health care providers like doctors, …show more content…
2, 2008). This population is put at risk of these errors by predispositions that is their own manageability. The pediatrics group is faced with continuously changing pharmacokinetic parameters. There is no uniform pharmacokinetic process in children; they are confronted with a continuous adjustment in metabolic rates as the age advances. Metabolizing organs such as the liver and the kidneys have not developed and continue to develop with slight variation in …show more content…
The system has presented with easy implementation of the clinical pathways. With the automated medication delivery, the nurses are saved from the strain of reading and identifying the patients on a one-by-one basis (Zerwekh & Zerwekh Garneau, 2015). The headache of having to reduce the illegible prescriptions from the pharmacy has decreased. The rate of nursing practitioners losing their license due to errors encountered in the system has greatly shortened and this has improved the service providence due to increased
Errors are a basic component of human life; they come from natural cognitive processes and adaptation of behavior. Proper excursion of medical procedures is the core piece of the healing process as well as the major component of nursing practice as a discipline and they all revolve around the patient safety. Medication errors can adversely increase the cost of treatment and affect the patient’s safety.
Administering medication to patients is a very critical role of nurses. In this process, errors can occur unintentionally yet have far-reaching consequences, with the end result being increased mortality, increased medical expenses and prolonged duration of hospitalization. Several health care providers like doctors, …show more content…
2, 2008). This population is put at risk of these errors by predispositions that is their own manageability. The pediatrics group is faced with continuously changing pharmacokinetic parameters. There is no uniform pharmacokinetic process in children; they are confronted with a continuous adjustment in metabolic rates as the age advances. Metabolizing organs such as the liver and the kidneys have not developed and continue to develop with slight variation in …show more content…
The system has presented with easy implementation of the clinical pathways. With the automated medication delivery, the nurses are saved from the strain of reading and identifying the patients on a one-by-one basis (Zerwekh & Zerwekh Garneau, 2015). The headache of having to reduce the illegible prescriptions from the pharmacy has decreased. The rate of nursing practitioners losing their license due to errors encountered in the system has greatly shortened and this has improved the service providence due to increased