Introduction
I choose this topic because there are many cases reported of medication errors by serving the wrong medication to the patients and thus cause serious harm to patient. Medication errors can occur during deciding, preparing and serving medications. It is an important topic as to emphasize the importance of managing medication errors.
Clinical experience
One day during morning shift, there were a newly graduated staff nurse and an enrolled nurse staffing at cubicle 2. After passing report, the staff nurse started to prepare medication for bed 7’s Mr. X first, but she attended to bed 6’s Mr. Y at the end without checking patient’s 2 identifications. At the same time, the enrolled nurse went to her suddenly and reported about bed 10’s Mr. Z’s abnormal Blood Pressure reading. She instructed Mr. Y to take the medications immediately and attended to Mr. Z to check patient’s Blood Pressure manually. After she settled down Mr. Z condition, she noticed that the medications had served wrongly while she was preparing medications for Mr. …show more content…
Based on the case scenario, the staff nurse must be more alert in any situations when medication administrations which may endanger the health or safety of clients so that this can make her to be more professional in delivering care to patient. Every nurse shall be responsible for ensuring that the client receives safe, effective and ethical care (Singapore Nursing Board, 1999). In order to provide care in a responsible and accountable manner, the staff nurse is accountable for judgments made and actions taken in the course of nursing practice so delegation plays an important role in this scenario so that patient can receive optimal quality of care from
I choose this topic because there are many cases reported of medication errors by serving the wrong medication to the patients and thus cause serious harm to patient. Medication errors can occur during deciding, preparing and serving medications. It is an important topic as to emphasize the importance of managing medication errors.
Clinical experience
One day during morning shift, there were a newly graduated staff nurse and an enrolled nurse staffing at cubicle 2. After passing report, the staff nurse started to prepare medication for bed 7’s Mr. X first, but she attended to bed 6’s Mr. Y at the end without checking patient’s 2 identifications. At the same time, the enrolled nurse went to her suddenly and reported about bed 10’s Mr. Z’s abnormal Blood Pressure reading. She instructed Mr. Y to take the medications immediately and attended to Mr. Z to check patient’s Blood Pressure manually. After she settled down Mr. Z condition, she noticed that the medications had served wrongly while she was preparing medications for Mr. …show more content…
Based on the case scenario, the staff nurse must be more alert in any situations when medication administrations which may endanger the health or safety of clients so that this can make her to be more professional in delivering care to patient. Every nurse shall be responsible for ensuring that the client receives safe, effective and ethical care (Singapore Nursing Board, 1999). In order to provide care in a responsible and accountable manner, the staff nurse is accountable for judgments made and actions taken in the course of nursing practice so delegation plays an important role in this scenario so that patient can receive optimal quality of care from