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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"medication administration errors"”.
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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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Latent preconditions of medication administration errors: development of a proactive error-management tool
… (Reason, 1990,1997). This theory purports that errors occur as a result of a complex interaction between unsafe acts and systemic organisational weaknesses known as latent failures. This tool will be used to measure and monitor organisational safety in health care and predict the likelihood of …
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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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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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Pain medication management : a quality improvement DNP project
Problem: Medication administration errors (MAEs) related to pain management remain a significant patient safety concern in hospital settings. A safety event involving opioid overmedication requiring naloxone at a community hospital prompted a root cause analysis. Findings identified inconsistent …
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Improving Patient Outcomes and Nurse Satisfaction by Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administrations
<p>Medication administration is an important part of nursing duties in acute-care settings. The nurse is responsible for prioritizing safe quality care when administering medications but errors do occur. This project addressed interruptions as one of the challenges of safe medication …
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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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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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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 …