Valerie J. Gooder Ph.D.‚ RN reports that the Institute of Medicine in 1999 reported that “nearly a million patients each year are injured in hospitals in the United States due to error. Medication errors occur more often than other categories of preventable errors (19%)‚ and most medication errors occurred during medication administration (34%) where they were more likely to directly impact the patient and cause harm.” (Gooder‚ 2011). Not long after looking at these percentages was the BCMA (Barcode
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DANILYN VOCAL MENDOZA B-4 L-25 Pitimini Village II Cuyab San Pedro‚ Laguna 4023 (O2)519-5713/ (02)697-0367/09298824071 danilynvocal@yahoo.com CAREER OBJECTIVES: ➢ To impart the knowledge and skills I obtained from my hospital experience. ➢ To utilize the skills obtained in my MA degree. ➢ To widen my professional field of experience. EDUCATION HISTORY: ➢ 2010-recently enrolled Master of Arts
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interesting study to read and examine. Medication errors are a significant problem‚ but not a problem that cannot be solved. There are precautions that can be taken to minimize the errors. The three specific areas the study focused on were prescription‚ transcription‚ and administration phase. Many errors occurred during all three phases‚ however‚ not all of the errors made it to the patients. Most of the errors that reached patients did not cause harm. Ethical considerations were used during the
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Revise As a result of the literature and analysis‚ I learned that safe medication administration is one of the most important skills that a nurse can have. If a medication error occurs‚ it can have many ethical‚ social‚ economic and safety ramifications. The research presented has also allowed me to see that medication errors are more likely to occur in certain situations‚ such as a hectic and distracting workplace. The literature suggests that I should do the best that I can to avoid such situations
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Medication errors occur often in the nursing field. “A medication error is defined as a failure in the treatment process that leads to‚ or has the potential to lead to‚ harm to the patient.” [(Aronson‚ Medication Errors.)] Nurses make unfortunate mistakes everyday . “According to a April 7 report in Health Affairs‚ medical errors now cost our over-burdened health care system over $17.1 billion dollars a year; the cost of avoidable hospital readmissions adds another $13 to $18 billion dollars a
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responsibility. When a medication error occurs‚ ethical issues such as a loss of human dignity‚ fidelity and beneficence also occur‚ which leads to patient dissatisfaction and mistrust. Social issues often interplay with any sort of medical error as well. Medication errors often result in damaged social relations such as the nurse-patient relationship and the healthcare system’s image. When nurses make a medication error they are obligated to report their mistake to the charge nurse‚ the patient
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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
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CIN: Computers‚ Informatics‚ Nursing & Vol. 32‚ No. 12‚ 589–595 & Copyright B 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins F E A T U R E A R T I C L E Impact of an Electronic Medication Administration Record on Medication Administration Efficiency and Errors JEFFERY MCCOMAS‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNS MICHELLE RIINGEN‚ DNP‚ RN‚ CNS-BC SON CHAE KIM‚ PhD‚ RN Congress authorized an initiative in 2004 to create a national health information technology infrastructure to improve patient outcomes through
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Medication errors According to The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (2015)‚ medication error is 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. Medication can be harmless but with mistakes in prescribing‚ dispensing and administering medications‚ it can cause injury to all population groups while impacting our public
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Near misses and errors in medication administration is a trend that may occur more frequently than perceived‚ mainly due to the fear of reporting. Medication administration errors occur due to a plethora of factors including staffing limitations‚ knowledge of pharmacology‚ miscommunication‚ and the inevitable ’human’ factor (Durham‚ 2015). Nurses may fear the repercussions of reporting or not be clear on what events need to be reported. To improve incident reporting‚ clarification is needed of which
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