Medication Errors Research Paper

Medication errors are made time and time again by health care professionals all around the world. Although these errors are accidental they can be life-threatening. There are several types of medication errors that can occur, such as prescribing errors, transcription errors, dispensing errors, administration errors, and monitoring errors (Clayton and Willihnganz, p. 73). In this reading, it will specifically talk about an administration error and how it ended the life of a mother-of-four. Arsula Samson died of a heart attack after her nurse overdosed her with potassium chloride. Samson came to the hospital for pneumonia. While there she had been prescribed potassium chloride. Her nurse, Lisa Sparrow, “… pumper her with 50 mL of the drug over