What´s Safe Medication Error?

With the growing reliance on medication as the primary intervention for most illnesses, patients receiving medication interventions may gain high benefits, at the cost of increased exposer to potential harm. This discussion post will focus on reviewing; concepts of safe medication administration, The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals related to safe medication administration and finally describe how the interdisciplinary teams can participate in safe medication administration.
Common Factors Medication error defined is any preventable event which may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or harm to a patient (Treas & Willkinson, 2014). Medication mistakes are the most common type of healthcare error. Clinical factors which can contribute to medication error can include inadequate nursing education about patient safety and quality, excessive workloads, staffing inadequacies, fatigue, illegible provider handwriting, flawed dispensing systems, and problems with the labeling of drugs. Mistakes which can result in medication error can involve giving the wrong medication or the wrong dose at the wrong time, omitting doses, giving the wrong dose,
Nurses can also be involved in both the dispensing and preparation of medications, such as crushing pills and drawing up a measured amount for injections. This is the reason that following the “rights” of medication administration include the right patient, right drug, right time, right route, and right dose, is critical for all nurses regardless of the of where they practice. In an effort to decrease medication error the Joint Commission mandate that hospital across the country developed mean to decreased medication error and provider a safety for patient by this many error preventable technology has being created for example , smart pumps and automated dispensing units such as the PIXIS (Treas & Willkinson,