The Role Of Medication Errors In The Practicum Change Project Setting

In the Practicum Change Project setting, one of the safety or quality issues arising includes medication errors. Medication administration errors constitute one of the most common forms of patient safety incidents likely to result in adverse effects. Notably, it is possible for nurses to be responsible for medication errors prompting the need to understand the various consequences of mistakes and ways of preventing them (Härkänen, Turunen, Saano, & Vehviläinen-Julkunen, 2013). Nurses are responsible for administering medication to a patient and thus are the appropriately placed in monitoring and reporting medication errors.
The project mainly used qualitative data collected from interviews conducted with nurses working on medical wards and