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life in danger and adds days to the hospital stay. To prevent medication errors nurses need to be very mindful when administering medication. Medication errors happen all the time, affecting many different people in many different ways, with extra precaution medication errors can be eliminated. Medication errors affect a lot of different people, all the time. Out of the 1.5 million people that are harmed by medication errors 45% occur in the emergency department. Drug overdoses affect…

The introduction discussed the prevalence of medication errors and examines nurse staffing strategies used to reduce the number of medication errors in community hospitals. An essential factor to consider is the cost of RN hours versus the cost of patient safety (Frith, Anderson, Tseng & Fong, 2012 p.293). The study purpose “was to examine the relationship between nurse staffing and the occurrence of medication errors on medical-surgical units” (Frith et al., 2012, p. 289). The researchers used…

after the medication. This medication error ranged from the minor impairment with complete recovery in a short time to death. Moreover, this medication error was not only caused by the adverse use of drug but also the negligent care of the drug. Additionally, this study conveyed that 14% of the medication error was caused by one’s mistake. In other words, at least this 14% of the medication…

Comedy of Errors Essay In the play The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, the ending leads to a satisfactory conclusion. This is as the ending resolves the main conflict in many different ways. Antipholus of Syracuse is reunited with his long-lost family, Egeon is free of his griefs, and the Dromios are reunited for the first time since infancy. Through the solving of the dilemma, Shakespeare conceals several important morals to the Elizabethan audience that the modern audience can also…

Medication errors happen all the time, unfortunately. “According to a 2006 Institute of Medicine report, at least 1.5 million preventable medication-related adverse events occur in the Unites States every year, but the true number could be much higher” (Adams, S. C., Federwisch, M., & Ramos, H., 2014). The last straw in medication administration is the nurse. It is so important for the nurse to be very observant when administering medications, so that errors do not occur and lead to further…

assignment. There are so many different ways a medication error can occur. When a medication error happens, it can lead to very serious and costly consequences for the patient and the hospital (Chu, 2016). These medication errors are 100% preventable. One of the best ways for a new nurse to prevent medication errors is to state their rights of medication. Often the nurses, who don’t follow their rights of medication, will result in a medication error (Chu, 2016). Before a nurse can enter the…

One important point I learned from reading Reign Error is that the author believes that public education is not broken, but some changes need to be made. The author states that the solutions from corporate reformers are wrong and that instead of helping schools their solutions are causing more problems.The author does not give a solution on how to better schools, but she does purpose a trial and error method. Schools have to be open to new ideas and these ideas should be tried in a small scale…

safety behaviors is encouraged and near misses are valued as opportunities for learning and improvement. For example, if medication error was made by the nurse the error should be reported and followed up with the clinical manager or risk management. At this time the nurse can reflect on what went wrong and what could have been done. Rationales for medication error may be distraction while preparing the…

Nurit Tal-Or and Yael Papirman’s article discusses the fundamental attribution error as seen with actors and their viewers. Fundamental attribution error (FAE) is how people often overlook external factors and focus solely on one’s personality when trying to understand a person’s behavior, (2007). Tal-Or and Papirman state that FAE is likely caused by the passive attention held during the audiovisual media of TV shows and films, (2007). Two experiments were used to test FAE in relation to actors…

Medication errors continue being a major cause for concern among the nursing profession. While many efforts have been put forth to eradicate this preventable cause of patient harm, the incidence of medication errors still continues to climb. According to an article in American Nurse Today (2015), “medication errors account for more than seven thousand deaths annually and each error cost anywhere from $2,000 to $8,750 dollars” (Anderson, & Townsend, p. 18). This statistic is alarming and does not…