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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"medication error"”.
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Outpatient Medication Error Improvement
<p><strong>Patient Safety Initiative -Improving Medication Administration (Outpatient Care)</strong></p> <p><strong>SPECIFIC AIM:</strong> We aim to Improve the medication administration process and involve all staff within 6 months</p> <p>In the microsystem consisting of 14 family practice and …
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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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Nursing-Related Factors Influencing Medication Error Incidence On Medical Surgical Units
<p>Medication error harms approximately 1.5 million people every year with the cost of treating a drug-related injury around $3.5 billion yearly. Awareness and scrutiny of medication error incidence within acute care settings has increased over recent years but identifying variable contributions to …
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Medication error at the primary secondary care interface: costs, causes, consequences
Background: Medication error is an important patient safety issue worldwide and results in morbidity, mortality and economic burden. The true cost of medication error is unclear from current evidence. Medication error is particularly common at the primary secondary care interface as patients move …
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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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A Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry into Moral Distress, Compassion Fatigue, Medication Error, and Critical Care Nursing
… Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL), and Medication Administration Error (MAE) Scale and demographics form were used to measure quantitative data. Quantitative findings included the majority of participants were female (91.7%); mean age 47 (SD = 7.91) years; mean years worked as a nurse …
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A mixed methods investigation of behavioural determinants relating to medication error reporting by health professionals in the United Arab Emirates.
Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of medication error reporting is key to enhancing patient safety. The aim of this research was to explore medication error reporting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), examining the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and experiences of health professionals. The …
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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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A Science Education Study Using Visual Cognition and Eye Tracking to Explore Medication Selection in the Novice Versus Expert Nurse Anesthetist
… explore visual cognition and eye tracking during medication selection in the student nurse anesthetist (first year and second year students) and the expert nurse anesthetist. The first phase of this study consisted of the selection of a specific medication (target) from an array of medications via …
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Patient safety culture in Irish healthcare: a mixed-methods investigation
Introduction: Medical error is a leading cause of preventable harm worldwide. Patient safety culture has been described as the way in which members of a healthcare organisation think about and prioritise safety. The patient safety culture in a healthcare organisation can be affected by numerous …
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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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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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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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Reducing preventable adverse drug events in hospital settings
… to a hospital is subject to at least one medication error per day (IOM, 2006). Errors may occur during various stages of the Medication Use System; a system composed of various tasks performed from the point of prescribing medication to the point in which a patient is monitored for adverse …
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Improving Patient Medication Reconciliation Participation and Compliance Through Education
… of this world are patients and their safety. Medication knowledge and medication reconciliation compliance are factors that influence patient’s safety and their overall health outcomes. This project explores the theme of patient safety by examining the relationship between patient education …
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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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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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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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Medicines Reconciliation: Roles and Process. An examination of the medicines reconciliation process and the involvement of patients and healthcare professionals across a regional healthcare economy, within the United Kingdom.
Medication safety and improving communication at care transitions are an international priority. There is vast evidence on the scale of error associated with medicines reconciliation and some evidence of successful interventions to improve reconciliation. However, there is insufficient evidence on …
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A study of the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines with reference to medication errors in the Armed Forces Hospital, Kuwait. An experimental investigation to determine the accuracy of the prescribing process, dispensing process and nurse administration of medication as compared with the prescriptions of physicians in the Armed Forces Hospital in Kuwait.
Introduction: Medication errors are a major cause of illness and hospitalization of patients throughout the world. This study examines the situation regarding medication errors in the Armed Forces Hospital, Kuwait since no literature exists of any such studies for this country. Several types of …
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