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Increasing Patient Safety During Medication Administration
<p>Medication administration error is one of the crucial medical errors that compromises patient safety in hospitals each day. Direct observations were conducted to assess medication administration (MA) accuracy and practices in order to determine the root cause(s) of errors at a community-based, …
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Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration
… the avoidable interruptions that occur during medication administration. The microsystem is a pediatric and adult medical-surgical overflow unit at a large, urban teaching hospital in Northern California. A series of surveys for nurses and patients and observations of medication administrations …
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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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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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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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Safety in Hospital Medication Administration Applying STAMP Processes
… techniques has not led to significant hospital medication administration safety improvements. The healthcare industry has begun to draw on scientific approaches to safety from outside traditional medical fields, including human factors engineering and systems design. This thesis lays the …
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Professional Role Attitudes and Decision-making in Medication Administration
… nurse role factors affecting decision-making in medication administration. This chapter includes an introduction to the problem, a statement of the problem, objectives of the study, the significance of the problem, definitions of terms pertinent to this study, variables and their operational …
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Improving Medication Administration and Patient Outcomes by Decreasing Avoidable Interruptions
… was to improve the adverse events made during medication administration, which in turn reduces medical error costs and improves patient outcomes and patient safety. A review of the literature revealed several key points: (1) Medication errors are increasingly recognized as a significant, but …
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Characterization of intravenous medication administration in an intensive care unit
… focuses on characterizing intravenous (IV) medication administration in an intensive care unit at a partner hospital. Information regarding IV medication dose was extracted from MIMIC II, a large database containing real patient data; this information was used to characterize the use of …
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What Were You Thinking? Medication Administration Errors in Undergraduate Nursing Students
Purpose Medication Administration Errors (MAEs) present a significant risk for harm to patients and healthcare providers alike, yet little is understood about how nursing students conceptualize MAEs. Similar risks for harm are faced in the aviation industry, yet they have transformed into a highly …
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Graduate Nurse Perceptions Of Effectiveness Of Prelicensure Education On Medication Administration
… experiences in preparing them to administer medications safely. Situated cognition provided organization for the study design and analysis. Data were obtained from a cohort of nursing graduates from a community college in south central Michigan using a two-step online and paper survey method. …
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Increasing Compliance of Bar Code Medication Administration in the Emergency Room
… healthcare, it is necessary to provide safe medication administration. The specific goal is the reduction of medication errors in the hospital setting with concentration in the emergency room (ER). Bar-code medication administration (BCMA) has proven to be effective on the in-patient units in …
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DEFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT OF NURSE WORKAROUNDS DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
… they circumvent or eliminate a task during the medication administration process. Environmental, technological, and systemic barriers to following medication administration protocols are some of the reasons that nurses use workarounds. There is substantial qualitative research supporting the …
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Latent preconditions of medication administration errors: development of a proactive error-management tool
… in health care and predict the likelihood of medication administration errors (MAEs). Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted in study I with qualified nurses from several general medical wards and senior managers from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Using error …
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Effect of a Simulation Course on Medication Administration Safety of Malaysian Nursing Student
<p>Improving safety during medication administration has been a goal of today’s healthcare environment. The complexity of both medication use and the medication management process, especially in the in-patient setting, creates a significant risk for hospitalized clients. Medication administration …
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Registered nurses perceptions of medication administration errors and their management in Saudi Arabian hospitals
BackgroundMedication error is a global issue that can cause serious harm and even death. Nurses who are responsible for administering medication at the patient interface have the potential to contribute to the problem by making medication administration errors or preventing errors before medication …
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Medication Administration In Family Child Care Homes: A Comparison Of State Regulations With National Standards
… care home regulations with standards regarding medication administration in Caring for Our Children- National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs, 3rd edition (CFOC, 2011). A data collection instrument, which included seven CFOC (2011) …
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A Comparison of Two Teaching Methods for Pediatric Medication Administration: Multimedia and Text-Based Modules
… and Text-based Modules to Teach Pediatric Medication Administration</p> <p>Nurse educators are in a position to design and develop effective methods that consider the cognitive structures and how the mind processes information to teach pediatric medication content to nursing students. The …
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The Relationship Between Barcode Medication Administration Satisfaction and the Use of Workarounds Among Registered Nurses
… safe, hospitals have implemented barcode medication administration (BCMA) technology for RNs who have accepted this technology with varying levels of satisfaction. When nurses are dissatisfied with a BCMA system, they may find alternative methods to complete their work. Framed by the …
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Collaborating With the Unit Clerk to Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration on a Medical Surgical Unit
… to increased hospital length of stay and fines. Medication errors, a type of medical error, are one of the most common types of inpatient errors. Nurses are most often are responsible for medication administration, but safety during medication administration should be a priority of all hospital …
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