According to Stratis Health article, a great number of medication errors occur during the transferring processes of patients from hospitals to nursing homes. Majority of them are preventable. Implementing medication reconciliation in nursing home has been creating big effects on improving the discharge procedures and patients’ safety. Medication reconciliation assists nursing homes in preventing errors by comparing patients’ up-to-date lists of medications with the hospital discharged or transferred orders to identify discrepancies. At nursing homes, the processes of medication reconciliation follow step by step procedure. First, the nurses will obtain and verify medications lists prior to patients’ admissions. Then, the nurses will check the
