Communication is the means of interacting with people and the key way to avoid errors. Poor handwriting confused between drugs with similar names, misplacement of zeroes or decimela points, confusion of metric and other dosing units and inappriatiate abbreviations lead to mistakes and errors. Asking the patient their allergies before giving them their medication will avoid miscommunication between the nurse and the patient. The SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation) can help alleviate miscommunications. Always have physician or the other nurse read the medication back to ensure the ordered medication is transcribed correctly. Interpersonal communication between health professionals and patients was a key aspect of maintaining
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Examples include a work area with cluttered work, shortage of staff and fatigue due to long shifts. To minimize errors nurses should avoid taking long shifts without appropriate amount of sleep. The nurses should not take more work than what they can handle to prevent work overload. Even though by doing it nurses may not be able to prevent the work overload but the nurse should always prioritize by using the five rights algorism, organizing the flow sheet and following the ABC’s. Nurses should not rush to get things done; the nurse should always be able to accurately document everything he or she does with the patients. Reduction of stress can be achieved through physical and environmental considerations, such as improved air quality, acoustics and lighting. Heavy workload which can affect the mental and emotional status of the nurse can harm their professional performance. Shortage in staff will cause heavy workload. Overtime and being fatigue are common reasons for making medication errors. Nurses should only take as much as they can handle by moderating work hours and eliminating irrelevant tasks. Difficulties were encountered in addressing documentation requirements of transferred patients due to the high volume of patients involved. Patient requiring emergent treatment should be given priority. (Manias, E., Gerdtz, M., Williams, A., & Dooley, …show more content…
Nurses can try to mininze errors but to err is human so if the nurse err she or he can manage it by being honest, being up front, telling someone right away, seeking for help, asking or calling the doctor and they will tell the nurse what to do. Nurses shoud question the senior or doctor to what the side effect on it could be. Also question them to see if there is any way to reverse it. Nurses should ask to see if there is any way he or she can manage the error. By observing the patient, by preventative measures and making the senior or doctor aware of any adverse reaction. If the nurse does this quick enough and without hesitation she or he can minimize the error. Adverse medication errors can be avoided and nurses can ensure tremendous decline in such incidences if they carefully observe stated roles. I believe medication errors are happening daily, but there are ways to prevent them. The role of the nurse in medication error is prevention. I believe that implications of medication errors are important because medication administraion is a key nursing role. Proper training and education is needed for nurses to be able to practice safe medication administration. The best way to improve medication errors is by doing the three checks before administrating the medication. To provide patients with the best outcomes, it is important for nurses to understand the implications of medication
Examples include a work area with cluttered work, shortage of staff and fatigue due to long shifts. To minimize errors nurses should avoid taking long shifts without appropriate amount of sleep. The nurses should not take more work than what they can handle to prevent work overload. Even though by doing it nurses may not be able to prevent the work overload but the nurse should always prioritize by using the five rights algorism, organizing the flow sheet and following the ABC’s. Nurses should not rush to get things done; the nurse should always be able to accurately document everything he or she does with the patients. Reduction of stress can be achieved through physical and environmental considerations, such as improved air quality, acoustics and lighting. Heavy workload which can affect the mental and emotional status of the nurse can harm their professional performance. Shortage in staff will cause heavy workload. Overtime and being fatigue are common reasons for making medication errors. Nurses should only take as much as they can handle by moderating work hours and eliminating irrelevant tasks. Difficulties were encountered in addressing documentation requirements of transferred patients due to the high volume of patients involved. Patient requiring emergent treatment should be given priority. (Manias, E., Gerdtz, M., Williams, A., & Dooley, …show more content…
Nurses can try to mininze errors but to err is human so if the nurse err she or he can manage it by being honest, being up front, telling someone right away, seeking for help, asking or calling the doctor and they will tell the nurse what to do. Nurses shoud question the senior or doctor to what the side effect on it could be. Also question them to see if there is any way to reverse it. Nurses should ask to see if there is any way he or she can manage the error. By observing the patient, by preventative measures and making the senior or doctor aware of any adverse reaction. If the nurse does this quick enough and without hesitation she or he can minimize the error. Adverse medication errors can be avoided and nurses can ensure tremendous decline in such incidences if they carefully observe stated roles. I believe medication errors are happening daily, but there are ways to prevent them. The role of the nurse in medication error is prevention. I believe that implications of medication errors are important because medication administraion is a key nursing role. Proper training and education is needed for nurses to be able to practice safe medication administration. The best way to improve medication errors is by doing the three checks before administrating the medication. To provide patients with the best outcomes, it is important for nurses to understand the implications of medication