Reducing Medication Administration Errors Paper
Reducing Medication Administration Errors:
A Teaching Plan
Rosemary Lantigua
Sacred Heart University
Reducing Medication Administration Errors: A Teaching Plan
This paper provides an overview of a teaching plan of a single class during fundamentals of nursing course of a traditional BSN program. The subject of the class is on reducing the amount of medication administration errors in health care. The goals and objectives of the class will be provided as well as methods, resources, content and the time necessary to meet the objectives. At the conclusion of this teaching plan, an evaluation of the strategies needed to assess if the goal and objectives were met, will be produced.
Purpose
The nursing Code of Ethics is written by nurses to express their professional commitment to society and their patients. It is a description of the professional values, obligations and duties that reflect a nurse’s optimization of health (ANA, 2015). There are nine provisions and interpretive statements which become the staples of nursing practice. Within the Code of Ethics, are the ethical principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, autonomy, justice and privacy that were introduced in the Belmont Report. These principles, especially that of nonmaleficence, is tied directly to a nurses’ duty to protect the patient and to minimize harm (Polit & Beck, …show more content…
This teaching plan will target BSN students in the fundamentals course of the nursing program to prepare them with proper techniques. The teaching plan will teach the students medication calculations, educate them on the six rights of medication administration and how to successfully apply this knowledge and safely administer medications. With all this knowledge, the student will assist in the prevention of medication administration
A Teaching Plan
Rosemary Lantigua
Sacred Heart University
Reducing Medication Administration Errors: A Teaching Plan
This paper provides an overview of a teaching plan of a single class during fundamentals of nursing course of a traditional BSN program. The subject of the class is on reducing the amount of medication administration errors in health care. The goals and objectives of the class will be provided as well as methods, resources, content and the time necessary to meet the objectives. At the conclusion of this teaching plan, an evaluation of the strategies needed to assess if the goal and objectives were met, will be produced.
Purpose
The nursing Code of Ethics is written by nurses to express their professional commitment to society and their patients. It is a description of the professional values, obligations and duties that reflect a nurse’s optimization of health (ANA, 2015). There are nine provisions and interpretive statements which become the staples of nursing practice. Within the Code of Ethics, are the ethical principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, autonomy, justice and privacy that were introduced in the Belmont Report. These principles, especially that of nonmaleficence, is tied directly to a nurses’ duty to protect the patient and to minimize harm (Polit & Beck, …show more content…
This teaching plan will target BSN students in the fundamentals course of the nursing program to prepare them with proper techniques. The teaching plan will teach the students medication calculations, educate them on the six rights of medication administration and how to successfully apply this knowledge and safely administer medications. With all this knowledge, the student will assist in the prevention of medication administration