Error

worse, Fourtunatley its just that methods used to track errors are getting bettrer.The most frequent error to occur during a hospital stay is medication errors produced by nurses (wrong medication and dose).I will be discussing the article I found on medication errors, ways to avoid medication errors and the leagal and ethical consequences of making a medication error. The article I found is about a nurse in Florida who gave…

A weakness in this experimental design is the manual dilution of the Aquasol concentrations. This is because, if a random error were to occur, and the diluted Aquasol concentration does not result in the desired concentration, the validity, reliability, and precision of the results is majorly decreased. Whereas if the Aquasol concentrations were already previously diluted in a lab by professionals, or were bought in the correct concentrations, the reliability, validity, and precision of the…

In the early 1950s, medication and medical errors were so prevalent in hospitals that it was considered as part of medical diagnosis and treatment (Evans & Swan, 2015). As time progressed, medication errors became a major problem encountered by patients during hospital admissions and treatment. In hospitals there are several channels medications go through before getting to the patient. The error may emanate from the doctor who prescribed the medication or from the pharmacy where the order is…

The literature suggests that there are some possible causes that may explain why some medication errors occur. These include some risky behaviors of professionals who administer medications. Although they are performed by an individual, it can be said that there is a break in the system that leads to the performance of these behaviors. In 2008, Cohen, H. and Shastay, A. replicated a previous study from 2002 by administering surveys to 1,296 nurses regarding different aspects of medication…

conducting the experiment, there were multiple opportunities for errors to arise. One of the most drastic errors were the air bubbles stuck inside the eudiometer. The air bubbles contained hydrogen gas and were stuck on the sides instead of rising up into the collection of gas. This would have shifted the volume of the hydrogen gas higher than the actual value and ultimately increase the molar volume of the gas. Another example of an error is the measuring of the ribbon of magnesium. The ribbon…

percent error of the calculated percent water and accepted value is 3.36%. The mean of the class data for percent water was 50.8% and the standard deviation was 0.0300. Compared to the class results, my percent water was lower, but very close to the mean. The standard deviation has a low number; hence the data are not as spread out from the mean. One source of error that contributed to this percent error was that the hydrate, MgSO_4, may have been heated too long. This is a random error because…

patient outcomes, work harder, are more satisfied and more committed to staying in their jobs. Being short staffed brings a large amount of stress to any area of healthcare; this is commonly when you will see mistakes happening like, medication errors, and treatments that don’t get done. When these situations occur the communication of the team is more important than ever, and once a prioritized plan is created each member of the team needs to carefully follow it, and get help and support when…

5. 3. 4 Typical application and thermometric error Consider a typical application such as the measurement of surface temperature by a surface mounted thermocouple as shown in Figure 5.9 (a). Figure 5. 9 : (a) Surface mounted thermocouple in Example 5. 1 (b) Thermal resistance network model Heat loss from the thermocouple is modeled as shown above by discussion leading to Equation 5.3. Thermocouple attached to the surface of a massive solid whose temperature we would like to measure.…

physician order entry (CPOE). CPOE requires the physicians to enter their own orders for a patient in the computerized management system. CPOE is a huge benefit to patient safety and quality of care; this will allow for the elimination of legibility errors and incomplete orders. Another example is integration of programmed reminders and alerts. With a computerized management system, reminders and alerts can be integrated into the system. For example the system will alert a physician to…

management errors remains to be a big matter of contention necessitating the attention of clinical nurses (nurse).Medication administration is an important responsibility of nurses in various settings. All nurses within hospitals, physicians’ offices, and other healthcare facilities are generally responsible for administrating medication to patients. Administration of medication is a perplexing, careful, and watchful task to be completed. Every so often, nurses are responsible for causing errors…