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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Medication Errors"”.
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Prevention of Medication Errors During the Transcription Process
<p>Medication administration is a multistep process that involves prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, and administering drugs. The transcription of medication orders during patient admissions have been described as an error prone process by nurses on the unit. An FMEA analysis and unit surveys …
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Reducing medication errors in Kuwaiti government hospitals through pharmacovigilance
Background: Reducing medication errors in Kuwaiti government hospitals through pharmacovigilance involves the improvement of medication management practices to achieve the desired outcome. Medication management practices were assessed and based upon the findings, training to enhance healthcare …
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Reducing Medication Errors by Systematically Monitoring High-Risk Medications
<p>Reducing Medication Errors by Systematically Monitoring High-Risk Medications</p> <p>The project is performed in a pulmonary outpatient clinic, with a patient population of mostly men 60-80 years old with severe abnormal lung findings and often with multiple comorbidities. The clinic is staffed …
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Decreasing Medication Errors Through the Reduction of Avoidable Interruptions
… motion however there has been an increase in medication errors that has lead to a halted workflow and ultimately a less efficient unit. The cause of this increase is multifactorial however the focus of this paper will be on the interruptions occurring during medication passes, interruptions …
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Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors in the Microsystem
… there has been a fifteen percent increase of medication errors that the pharmacy department has detected across nursing, and pharmacy departments, as well as with physicians from both day and night shifts. Over the last month there has been a total of twenty-eight medication errors including …
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Nurse staffing, patient falls and medication errors in Western Australian hospitals: Is there a relationship?
… Australian Bureau of Statistics (2013) falls and medication errors in hospitals are among the first twenty leading causes of death. Research on the relationship between nurse staffing, patient falls, and medication errors are limited. Even scarcer are studies that examine this relationship on a …
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Exploring medication errors and doctors’ and nurses’ perceptions of them in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
… introduction of numerous strategies to improve medication safety, error rates over the last 5 years have not reduced. Moreover, some errors are being repeated. This suggests that staff may not learn from their errors or individual learning is not being shared across the PICU. The aim of this …
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The Effect of Organizational Commitment, Organizational Based Self Esteem and Work Engagement on Nurses' Perception of Medication Errors
… Organizations rely on the accurate reporting of medication errors or omissions by bedside nurses to improve the medication delivery system in order to prevent further errors from occurring in the future. In a time where nurses are managing more complex patients with shorter lengths of stay, full …
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An Exploration of Medication Errors Generated by Baccalaureate Nursing Students Using Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) Technology in Clinical Simulation
Background: Medication errors continue to be a significant issue within both academic and clinical settings, posing substantial threats to the safety and well-being of patients. Through Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, nursing students’ self-efficacy (confidence) and preparedness related to …
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Medication error reporting: a qualitative study exploring student nurses’ anticipated peer reactions to error reporting
… a series of vignettes describing a variety of medication error scenarios, the study used descriptive qualitative interviewing to explore junior and senior level student nurses’ beliefs regarding the impact of reporting medication errors on the relationship between the person committing the …
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Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During the Medication Administration Process
<p>Background:<strong> </strong>Medication safety and preventing medication errors continues to be a high priority for hospitals and clinics, as medication errors are the most common and most costly errors in U.S. hospitals (Kliger, 2010, p. 690). Kliger (2010) reported that 450,000 medication …
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Nursing Students' Lived Experiences surrounding Medication Administration
Medication errors are abounding and the complexity of medication administration creates an environment where health care providers are at risk for making errors. This environment includes nursing students learning medication administration. Coupled with a rigid, protocol-driven pedagogy, nursing …
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Medication safety in collaborative health care settings: an investigation of the impact of information exchange processes in residential aged care facilities
Medication safety is a pressing concern for residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Although failures in information exchange (IE) between multiple providers have been identified as a primary cause of medication errors, there is limited evidence about the way IE impacts on medication safety. This …
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Drug-related problems in the elderly - Interventions to improve the quality of pharmacotherapy
… elderly. Methods: (Paper I) All information on medication use in nursing home patients with epilepsy or Parkinson's disease was collected. A multi-speciality team evaluated nursing home patients' medication and, when appropriate, suggested changes. (Paper II) Elderly patients that had been …
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Evaluation of a Special Teaching Program with Ambulatory Cardiac Patients
… would have increased understanding about their medication, make fewer medication errors, and know more about undesirable effects and how to handle them than patients not included in the special teaching program. Forty-one ambulatory cardiac patients were, after a random start, alternately …
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Erros de prescrição em hospitais brasileiros: uma revisão.
… adverse events process. The hospital level, medication administration commences with the choice of therapy and prescription fulfillment. Prescription errors correspond to the phase in which happe n a higher amount of medication errors, generating negative consequences to users. In Brazil, the …
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Educating medication aides about safe medication administration
<p>Educating Medication Aides About Five Rights of Medication Administration Abstract</p> <p>The objective is resident safety in an assisted living facility with 20 residents; 18 staff members. After discussion with manager (an RN), and observation of aides passing meds, a focus on education of the …
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Improving Patient Safety Through Accurate Medication Reconciliation
<p>Medication errors due to incorrect medication reconciliation are a very present and serious problem in our microsystem. As an preop/postop outpatient unit, we see an average of 50 patients daily and perform medication reconciliations regularly. The problem is our nurses perform this task …
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Implantação de uma ferramenta visual para redução de erros de medicação em um hospital oncológico
The adverse effects related to medication may cause significant health problems to the patients with relevant economic and social impacts. Among them, medication errors are common occurrences and may trigger clinically significant dimensions and bring relevant costs to the health system.
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Exploring medication error causality and reporting in the Middle East.
The "Medication Without Harm, WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge", published by the World Health Organization in 2017, calls for action to reduce patient harm as a result of unsafe medication practices and medication errors. Medication error-related research conducted within the Middle East has …
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