Explain The Interdisciplinary Nature Of Pharmacology To Ensure Safe Medication Administration
1. Explain the interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology to ensure safe medication administration. Use of drugs to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease processes/suffering Medications can either: Improve Quality of Life Produce Devastating Consequences
2. Compare and contrast pharmacology and therapeutics. a. Pharmacology: The study of medicine. i. Understanding how drugs are administered, to where they travel in the body, to the actual responses produced. b. Therapeutics: branch of medicine concerned with the prevention of disease and treatment of suffering c. Pharmacotherapy: application of drugs for the purpose of disease prevention and the treatment …show more content…
Discuss the role of the nurse in teaching patients about medications.
Module 2 1. Define medication errors -any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.
2. Identify factors that contribute to medication errors. Omitting one of the right of drug administration. Common errors include given incorrect dose, not ordered dose, and giving wrong drug. Failing to perform an agency system check. Both parmacy and nurses must collabortate on checking the accuracy and appropriateness of drug orders prior to administering drugs to patients. Failing to account for patient variables such as age body size, and impairment in renal or hepatic function. Giving medications that are not written down but given verbally or over phone. Giving meds based on incomplete or an illegible order. Practicing under stressful work conditions.
3. Discuss the impact of medication errors are the most common cause of morbidity and preventable death within hospitals. Patients stay longer in hospital. Nurse or physician faces embrassement. There is no acceptable rate for medication
2. Compare and contrast pharmacology and therapeutics. a. Pharmacology: The study of medicine. i. Understanding how drugs are administered, to where they travel in the body, to the actual responses produced. b. Therapeutics: branch of medicine concerned with the prevention of disease and treatment of suffering c. Pharmacotherapy: application of drugs for the purpose of disease prevention and the treatment …show more content…
Discuss the role of the nurse in teaching patients about medications.
Module 2 1. Define medication errors -any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.
2. Identify factors that contribute to medication errors. Omitting one of the right of drug administration. Common errors include given incorrect dose, not ordered dose, and giving wrong drug. Failing to perform an agency system check. Both parmacy and nurses must collabortate on checking the accuracy and appropriateness of drug orders prior to administering drugs to patients. Failing to account for patient variables such as age body size, and impairment in renal or hepatic function. Giving medications that are not written down but given verbally or over phone. Giving meds based on incomplete or an illegible order. Practicing under stressful work conditions.
3. Discuss the impact of medication errors are the most common cause of morbidity and preventable death within hospitals. Patients stay longer in hospital. Nurse or physician faces embrassement. There is no acceptable rate for medication