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
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will do additional study to find out nurses’ opinion of medication error and their contributing factors on the (wards at hospital). A cross-sectional study will be utilized and a sample of twenty (20) nurses‚ ten (10) from each ward will be chosen. A convenience sampling method will be used and data will be collected with the use of questionnaires and interviews. In this study‚ the perspectives of the experienced nurses concerning medication errors will be investigated. Information gathered will be kept
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on the factors that contribute to medication errors Introduction Medication management is a fundamental component of nursing‚ so should be managed with caution however medication errors do still occur within the healthcare system till this day. Medication errors have been identified as the second most common type of patient safety error in the United Kingdom by National Patient Safety Agency with 59‚802 reported incidents occurring in 2007. The medication management process has many stages
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000228836 CASE "St. Mary’s Nurse is Charged; Medication Error Led to Teen’s Death" describes the criminal complaint A Wisconsin nurse who was arrested on a felony charge stemming from an unintentional medical error that led to the death of a patient last summer will serve three years of probation after pleading no contest to reduced charges‚ but medical and nursing societies are concerned about the effect the case might have in future medical error situations. Julie Thao was a nurse at St. Mary’s
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of ones concept of right and wrong (Judson & Harrison‚ 2010). Code of ethics is a list of principles that is intended to influence the actions of healthcare professionals within an organization. Ethical principles help guide the decision-making process among healthcare workers in complicated situations. This paper will review the assigned case study and provide the reader with the ethical issues and principles. The case study discussed an 8-month old child brought into the emergency department by
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Florentino Cayco Memorial School of Graduate Studies Masters of Arts in Nursing METHODS OF RESEARCH IN NURSING Jennylyn C. Cabanto‚ RN Gen. Marlene Padua‚ RN‚ MAN June 29‚ 2013 ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN NURSING RESEARCH HISTORICAL BACKGROUND As modern‚ civilized people: systematic violations of moral principles within a research context occurred centuries ago rather than in recent times – FALSE The Nazi Medical Experiments (1930s & 1940s) The Tuskegee Syphillis Study (1932-1972) Injection
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FUNDAMENTAL BIOETHICAL PRINCIPLES Bioethics -Bios meaning life- involves the application of general normative ethical theories‚ principles and rules to medical practice‚ the allocation of health care resources and research. Medical and pharmaceutical ethics are sub-groupings within the diverse and interdisciplinary endeavour which bioethics has become. Within the ethical literature there are to be found fundamental and derived principles which are particularly important: AUTONOMY This is derived
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Principles‚ Methods and Ethical principles of communication The purpose of this paper is to discuss the 7 principles of patient- nurse communication and how it applies to me and my interaction with patients‚ The 3 Methods of interdisciplinary communication and the SBAR communication applies to my own practice and the ethical principles that are applied to patient- clinician (Paget‚ Han‚ Nedza‚ Kurtz‚ Racine‚ Russell‚ Santa‚ Schumann‚ Simha & Von Kohorn‚ I. (2012) states that the seven principles
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There are no ethical principles in business (33 Some may argue that ethical principles have no role in business and the two do not go hand in hand. However many would argue that this statement is in fact not true as they is a wide variety of theories available ‚each of which hold their own ethical principles and in fact these principles are what makes a business truly successful in all aspects. Many of the ethical issues in business are covered by the code of ethics. Concerning both the employers
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held to rules and certain ethical principles that must be followed at all times. Each disciplines discussed has it own set of ethical principles. However‚ there have been many cases where each of these professionals broke these ethical principles‚ facing legal consequences for their inappropriate and unethical actions. Speech pathologist‚ occupational therapist‚ physicians‚ psychologist‚ and teachers have very similar ethical principals they must follow. Ethical principles are given to each of these
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