Berman‚ A. (2004). Reducing medication errors through naming‚ labeling‚ and packaging. Journal of Medical Systems‚ 28(1)‚ 9-29. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:JOMS.0000021518.60670.10 This article talks about the different names of drugs that are similar and may cause medication errors in the healthcare field. Also‚ the article talks about many different ways to label and manufacture the medications so errors will be less. There are many different ways the pills look and are
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Preliminary Literature Review Description of Problem Medication errors are common in hospitals. The area with larger patient demand and patient with more complex cases are at higher risk for medication errors. The classification of medication errors is by prescription‚ omission‚ time‚ dose‚ inappropriate drugs‚ and disposal. Medication errors also cause emotional and financial losses to the hospitals‚ patients‚ teams‚ families‚ and societies. As the result
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Healthcare Research and Quality (2000)‚ “medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related errors cost the economy from $17 to $29 billion each year”. In addition to the monetary cost of errors‚ the physical and psychological costs such as pain
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Introduction: • The theme of my project "The friction force in the sport." • The theme of the project‚ I chose in March when we just started to study the force of friction. • The topic seemed very interesting‚ because I already knew that the friction force is used in football. And I was curious‚ what other sports use the force of friction. • My project focuses on the Area Of Interaction "Health and Social Education." • Some of us go to sports clubs‚ or do it yourself‚ such as running in the
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Medication Errors: A Literature Review your name here Pharmacology 2 teachers name here September 17 2008 The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists define a medication error as “episodes of drug misadventure that should be preventable through effective systems controls involving pharmacists‚ physicians and other prescribers‚ nurses‚ risk management personnel‚ legal counsel‚ administrators‚ patients and others in the organizational setting‚ as well as regulatory agencies and the
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EXERCISE 2 My involvement in the drug error is as follows. I was working on the night shift as the only qualified nurse with 2 nursing assistants. The late shift decided to administer the 10pm medications as a way of helping me. This however was key in me making the error that I did. If I had been left to do the 10pm medications by myself‚ this error would not have occurred. Patient PF was given her medication by the late staff‚ however she had spat them out. On going to give her these
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Friction discloses the particularities of different collaborations that disrupt or develop processes of economic transformations that reflect on landscapes‚ and at the same time accentuates the role that imagination plays in recreating the wild as fields of profiteering. The title is so well chosen‚ that I can’t even begin to write about how significant the idea of ’friction’ should be in understanding the creation of new enclosures. Friction does justice to a real account (not just a romanticized
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writing. However‚ idiom errors are so rampant (television is a predominant culprit)‚ and faulty English assaults the ear so frequently that even the best students can stumble into the idiom trap. The 2400 Club counters this problem by actively studying correct usage. One of the best ways is to learn common verb-preposition pairs‚ which are tested frequently in the grammar and usage portions of the writing section of the SAT. When working on the identifying sentence errors section‚ pay close attention
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Chapter 45 Hormones and the Endocrine System PowerPoint Lectures for Biology‚ Seventh Edition Lectures by Ching-wei Luo Hormone (from the Greek horman‚ to excite) • Overview: The Body’s Long-Distance Regulators • Hormone definition: a chemical signal secreted into the circulatory system and communicates regulatory messages within the body • Hormones may reach all parts of the body But only certain types of cells (target cells) are equipped to respond Q Two systems act individually
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Abstract Medical errors and the quality problems to which they lead harm millions of Americans each year. If we are to reduce errors and improve quality substantially‚ we must create systems and care processes that anticipate inevitable human errors and either prevent them or compensate for them before they cause harm. Formidable barriers now stand in the way of progress. Success will require a multifaceted strategy‚ including public education‚ government investment and regulation‚ payment system
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