Personal Code of Ethics
If I were in the health care industry and I happened to be an administrator, my personal mission statement would be to participate in the improvement of health, safety, and the well-being of patients to the best of my capabilities. To achieve this objective, it demands a high degree of alertness and the institution of appropriate action with respect to any incidences of incompetency, illicit, inappropriate, or unethical practice by members of the team providing health care (Cribb, 2005). For instance, let us say that I was an administrator of nurses in a healthcare facility. I would allow my code of ethics be guided by the guidelines of this practices as I go about my duties. This is bearing in mind that there are many …show more content…
Nurses must be conversant with the nature of medication errors, discover the hazards pertaining to the use of medication, and the steps that can be taken to ensure safe administration of drugs. All medical practitioners involved in medication use are obliged to working together in order to mitigate the harm that medication use may cause to patients (Cribb, 2005). These are all very important duties, hence when the nursing personnel is poorly skilled, a room for many errors is created. For instance, every step in the process of prescription, administration, and monitoring has the potential for error, which can occur in several ways. Errors in prescription may include inadequate knowledge on the drug contraindications, indications, and drug interaction. Prescription errors may also result from failure to consider individual patient aspects that would change prescribing such as pregnancy, allergies, co-morbidities such as renal stultification, and the patient’s use of other medications (Perry, 2002). With respect to administration, errors may include administering drugs to the wrong patient, using the wrong method or drug, in incorrect doses, and at the incorrect time. Other errors in drug administration include complete failure to give a prescribed drug and errors in documentation (Cribb, 2005). For instance, medication may be administered but not recorded as having being given. In this case, another staff member may inadvertently administer it for the second
If I were in the health care industry and I happened to be an administrator, my personal mission statement would be to participate in the improvement of health, safety, and the well-being of patients to the best of my capabilities. To achieve this objective, it demands a high degree of alertness and the institution of appropriate action with respect to any incidences of incompetency, illicit, inappropriate, or unethical practice by members of the team providing health care (Cribb, 2005). For instance, let us say that I was an administrator of nurses in a healthcare facility. I would allow my code of ethics be guided by the guidelines of this practices as I go about my duties. This is bearing in mind that there are many …show more content…
Nurses must be conversant with the nature of medication errors, discover the hazards pertaining to the use of medication, and the steps that can be taken to ensure safe administration of drugs. All medical practitioners involved in medication use are obliged to working together in order to mitigate the harm that medication use may cause to patients (Cribb, 2005). These are all very important duties, hence when the nursing personnel is poorly skilled, a room for many errors is created. For instance, every step in the process of prescription, administration, and monitoring has the potential for error, which can occur in several ways. Errors in prescription may include inadequate knowledge on the drug contraindications, indications, and drug interaction. Prescription errors may also result from failure to consider individual patient aspects that would change prescribing such as pregnancy, allergies, co-morbidities such as renal stultification, and the patient’s use of other medications (Perry, 2002). With respect to administration, errors may include administering drugs to the wrong patient, using the wrong method or drug, in incorrect doses, and at the incorrect time. Other errors in drug administration include complete failure to give a prescribed drug and errors in documentation (Cribb, 2005). For instance, medication may be administered but not recorded as having being given. In this case, another staff member may inadvertently administer it for the second