Dangers Of Medication Errors
Program Proposal:
A seminar and workshop entitled “The danger of Medication error due to understaffed nurses.”
BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
The nursing profession has traditionally accepted responsibility to assure that safe and accessible health care is available to the public at all times, including times when nurses are in short supply. The profession continues to accept such responsibility and also recognizes the need to identify strategies to promote the availability of the best nursing care during these critical times.
Working overtime, working in unsafe practice situations, and floating to an unfamiliar unit are examples of issues that combine labour, professional and regulatory issues. Working understaffed is one of the most common situations in which nurses experience dilemmas in meeting their professional and legal obligations to provide care. One of the most fatal risks of understaffing is the committing of medication errors. Because of chronic understaffing, nurses on a particular unit are often working short. .
Medication administration is often referred to as the “sharp edge” in the medication-use process. Errors introduced at the prescribing, or transcribing step, if not intercepted, will result in adverse drug reactions and can lead …show more content…
& Duncan, D. (2004) in their study on, Nurse perception of medication errors: what we need to know for patient safety, hospital medication error rates can be as high as 1.9% per patient per day. Physicians, pharmacist, unit clerks, and nurses can be involved in the occurrence of medication errors. The psychological trauma caused by committing a medication error can be overwhelming to a nurse. First, nurses worry about the patient. Nurses may feel upset, guilty, and terrified about making a medication error. In addition, they can experience a loss of confidence in their clinical practice abilities. Finally, they can feel angry at themselves as well as the
A seminar and workshop entitled “The danger of Medication error due to understaffed nurses.”
BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
The nursing profession has traditionally accepted responsibility to assure that safe and accessible health care is available to the public at all times, including times when nurses are in short supply. The profession continues to accept such responsibility and also recognizes the need to identify strategies to promote the availability of the best nursing care during these critical times.
Working overtime, working in unsafe practice situations, and floating to an unfamiliar unit are examples of issues that combine labour, professional and regulatory issues. Working understaffed is one of the most common situations in which nurses experience dilemmas in meeting their professional and legal obligations to provide care. One of the most fatal risks of understaffing is the committing of medication errors. Because of chronic understaffing, nurses on a particular unit are often working short. .
Medication administration is often referred to as the “sharp edge” in the medication-use process. Errors introduced at the prescribing, or transcribing step, if not intercepted, will result in adverse drug reactions and can lead …show more content…
& Duncan, D. (2004) in their study on, Nurse perception of medication errors: what we need to know for patient safety, hospital medication error rates can be as high as 1.9% per patient per day. Physicians, pharmacist, unit clerks, and nurses can be involved in the occurrence of medication errors. The psychological trauma caused by committing a medication error can be overwhelming to a nurse. First, nurses worry about the patient. Nurses may feel upset, guilty, and terrified about making a medication error. In addition, they can experience a loss of confidence in their clinical practice abilities. Finally, they can feel angry at themselves as well as the