Medical error

fundamental care including the administration of medicines. Medication checks are extremely important in preventing prescription errors and consequent risk to patients (Fitzgerald, 2009). Medication errors are becoming increasingly prevalent following a patients discharge from the hospital. Barnett, et al. (2014) states that up to 70% of patients experience medication errors on discharge or during a transfer to another care setting. Safety management is extremely important. It is about…

article focuses on errors hospitals face. Every year there are millions of U.S citizens that suffer negative consequences from the errors in the medical industry. According to this article there is an estimate suggesting 98,000 deaths per year occur due to medical errors, attempts to reduce medical errors have not been successful. I like the fact that hospitals are looking for new ways to practice and process in an effort to reduce what can be called an epidemic of medical errors. I wished…

medication related deaths occur are due to medication errors (Karen, 2011, p. 1). In fact, within the United States, approximately 7,000 people die each year due to medication errors (Karen, 2011, p. 1). According to Karen (2011) 1.3 million medication errors occur yearly, which relates to several injuries and approximately one death a day related to medication errors in the Unites States (Karen, 2011, p. 1). One major cause of medication errors can be explained using the medication…

Introduction An error is defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended. An example is an error in performance (La Pietra et al., 2005). Error also can occur when implementing the wrong plan to achieve an objective often referred to as a planning error. Most of us may agree that an error is usually an unintentional act either by an oversight or directive that does not achieve its intended outcome. As mentioned by La Pietra, Calligaris, Molendini, Quattrin, & Brusaferro…

Medical errors encompass any preventable harm to a patient that occurs because a healthcare professional’s behavior fell below a required standard level of care. Unfortunately, medical errors occur with staggering regularity and are considered a public health issue. Recent studies place the yearly number of patients in the U.S. affected by preventable human error to be close to one million with an annual associated cost to the U.S. healthcare system of $17-29 billion (Guillod, 2013). In…

Medical error and misdiagnosis found to be the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind Heart Disease and Cancer. If medical error and misdiagnosis are third in one of the most medically developed countries, what is happening in the rest of the world? Poor Reporting of Medical Error Recent research published this month in BMJ uncovered startling facts about medical error and misdiagnosis statistics. If you follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics on…

Sometime mistakes take place, such as failure to check or record a lab finding, ordering the wrong drug, or entering a lab finding in the wrong patient’s chart. These mistakes are usually not enough to guarantee an occurrence of harm. Many serious medical errors result from violations of recognized standards of practice. Large sectors of the health care business are dominated by nonprofit providers. Their payments are made by third parties, the government, private insurers and self-insurers.…

This week we talked about medical errors. Rather than go with an article that discussed how medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, I chose an article about the things patients can do that will help protect themselves from medical errors. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014), one in seven Medicare patients in hospitals experience a medical error. These errors can occur anywhere in the health care system and can range from…

It is everyday in medicine that medical errors occur, and some worse than others. Nurses are more vulnerable to making these errors because of the fat that they may have the most patient contact. Many of the errors made can be prevented with the nursing process. The nursing process is a series of five steps that a registered nurse takes to ensure the quality of patient care (ANA, 2016). The five steps of the nursing process are assessment, analysis and/or diagnosing, planning, implementation,…

never even heard of the king family were moved by how Sorrel tells Josie's Story. Sorrel wanted everyone to know about Josie’s story so the money that Johns Hopkins was offering her, she settle for it then opened up a Foundation to make sure that medical errors are limited in the hospitals. That's when she began to travel to different states to speak to health care providers about Josie's story and the ways it could be prevented. “Not only did they listen, but they showed me they cared. They…