warnings; unfortunately‚ many people find out the hard way after using products such as vehicles‚ machinery‚ cleaning solutions‚ or drugs. Generally‚ no one truly sees the dangers or risk of these items until someone dies or is severely injured due to a defect or lack of warning labels. Nevertheless‚ putting regulations on things such as cigarettes‚ handguns‚ and prescription drugs would not solve anything because people would just find other ways around
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Medication Errors: A Literature Review your name here Pharmacology 2 teachers name here September 17 2008 The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists define a medication error as “episodes of drug misadventure that should be preventable through effective systems controls involving pharmacists‚ physicians and other prescribers‚ nurses‚ risk management personnel‚ legal counsel‚ administrators‚ patients and others in the organizational setting‚ as well as regulatory agencies and the
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show the importance of a team dedicated to intravenous (IV) insertion and the standardization of peripheral IV catheters in reducing venipuncture attempts‚ reducing cases of phlebitis‚ and optimizing costs. The benefits achieved by the team were a decrease in venipuncture attempts‚ a decrease of phlebitis (from 0.47% to 0.35%)‚ the optimization of the team ’s time‚ and a 29.47% reduction in the use of catheters. The study corroborates the IV team ’s importance in the process of managing nurses ’ workflow
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Medication errors occur often in the nursing field. “A medication error is defined as a failure in the treatment process that leads to‚ or has the potential to lead to‚ harm to the patient.” [(Aronson‚ Medication Errors.)] Nurses make unfortunate mistakes everyday . “According to a April 7 report in Health Affairs‚ medical errors now cost our over-burdened health care system over $17.1 billion dollars a year; the cost of avoidable hospital readmissions adds another $13 to $18 billion dollars a
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Medication Errors By: Rebecca Abell When doing the job of nursing one of the most important aspects is patient safety. The biggest danger to patients is medication. A medication error is when the nurse gives a patient the wrong medication or the dose of medication could be wrong. The danger of the medication error is that it can lead to an over dose‚ a reaction‚ or even death to a patient. There are several things to know when dealing with medication errors like who should fill it out‚ who should
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Mental Health Nurse in the administration of drugs to a Service User within and area of legal and ethical matters. In line with clause 5 of the nursing and midwifery council (NMC) (2004) code of professional conduct details of the service user will be confidential I certify that confidentiality has been maintained by use of pseudonyms. For purposes of this assignment the service user will be known as Winifred Clark. I will be examining the area of Covert Medication in a Dementia Patient. Dictionary
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Vitamin Description An organic chemical compound (or related set of compounds) is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism‚ and must be obtained from the diet. Thus‚ the term is conditional both on the circumstances and on the particular organism. For example‚ ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a vitamin for humans‚ but not for most other animals‚ and biotin and vitamin D are required in the human diet only in certain circumstances. By convention‚ the term vitamin does
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State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so‚ how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a)
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Administer Medication to Individuals‚ and Monitor the Effects. 1.1 The following is a list of legislation that has a direct impact upon the handling of medication within a social care setting. * The Medicines Act 1968 * The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 * The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) regulations 1973 SI 1973 No 798 as amended by Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 * The safer management of controlled drugs (2006) * The Children Act 1989 * The Data Protection Act 1998
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I. OBSERVATION/DOCUMENTATION A. MY TOOLS B. OBSERVATION GUIDE FOR THE CLASSROOM VISIT Name of the School Observed: Antonio A. Maceda Integrated School School Address: Buenos Aires St. Date of Visit: January 15‚ 2014 1. Describe the community or neighborhood where the school is found. Antonio A. Maceda Integrated School is a public school located along Buenos Aires St. 581‚ Sampaloc VII‚ Manila. It faces the near the United Bethel Church. It is surrounded by houses where most of their
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