8 Right of medication administration

Table of Contents

Introduction
Aim
Hypothesis
Literature review
i. Patient Safety and Quality, Medication Administration Safety ii. Double-checking medication administration
Research design
Limitations of the Research
References
Appendices
i. Letter to the director of nursing ii. Letter to the Ethics committee iii. Letter to the Respondent iv. Research Consent Form
v. Research time frame vi. Proposed budget vii. Survey questionnaire

Research proposal: Do Nurses follow the 8 rights of medication administration to reduce medication error?

Introduction
Medication error defined as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of health professional, patient or consumer”. Such events may be related to professional practice (the 8 rights; right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right documentation, right reason and right effect.), health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing, order communication, product labelling, packaging, and nomenclature, compounding, dispensing, distribution, administration, education, monitoring and use.

Some of the factors associated with medication errors include the following: medications with similar names or similar packaging, forgetting to check for known allergy, misreading medication names that look similar is a common mistake and understaff; nurses are left alone to administer medication when two nurse are require to witness and double check it first but nurses are too busy to do this all the time because it’s such a time consumer/waster. Among many reasons for the prevalence of nurse involvement in medication errors is that nurses may spend as much as 40 percent of their time in medication administration.

Aim
The purpose of conducting this research is to investigate whether the 8 rights of medication administration really are being followed by all nurses in all health care