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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"unit clerk"”.
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Collaborating With the Unit Clerk to Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration on a Medical Surgical Unit
… are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical errors also incur significant cost ramifications due 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 …
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Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During the Medication Administration Process
… process on the medical-surgical/trauma unit. In addition, nurse surveys were conducted to further assess the opinion and perspective of the nurses working on the unit, and what they felt were the significant interruptions they faced while administering medications. Based on the initial …
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Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration
… 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 were conducted to assess barriers during mediation administration. It was determined phone …
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Improving Medication Administration and Patient Outcomes by Decreasing Avoidable Interruptions
… and Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Specialty Unit. The goal 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) …
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Improving Patient Outcomes and Nurse Satisfaction by Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administrations
… perceived and actual interruptions on the unit and 3) to address and reduce the avoidable interruptions of calls, pages and call lights at the nurse station. The purpose of this project is to improve patient outcomes, nurse satisfaction and nurse workflow by reducing medication …