Medication Errors are the leading issues debated in the health care setting in America. Whenever medications were administered‚ nurses must follow the five basic rights: Right patient‚ Right medication‚ Right route‚ Right dose‚ and Right time. Believed it or not medication errors still seek to exist. However‚ most common errors are occurring related to poor transcriptions‚ drug interactions‚ drug name confuses‚ and poor documentation. One of the greatest concerns with medication errors is order transcription
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Revise As a result of the literature and analysis‚ I learned that safe medication administration is one of the most important skills that a nurse can have. If a medication error occurs‚ it can have many ethical‚ social‚ economic and safety ramifications. The research presented has also allowed me to see that medication errors are more likely to occur in certain situations‚ such as a hectic and distracting workplace. The literature suggests that I should do the best that I can to avoid such situations
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The Annotated Bibliography: Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful‚ but when you have to write annotations for each source‚ you ’re forced to read each source more carefully. You begin to read more critically instead of just collecting information. In addition to helping you learn about your topic‚ creating an annotated bibliography can help you with your thesis. One purpose of research is to state
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How to Write an Annotated Bibliography An annotated bibliography is a list of research on a particular subject that includes complete citation information and a short annotation (paragraph) about the source. How annotations are written depends on the purpose of the research. Parts of An Annotated Bibliography Bibliographic information - the complete citation information written in correct APA format. This is the information you would normally include on a references page. Annotation – a short
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Medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or harm to a patient (FDA‚ 2009). Being one of the most common medical errors‚ medication errors are not a subject to take without due consideration. In 2006‚ the National Academies stated “Studies indicate that 400‚000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals. Another 800‚000 occur in long-term care settings‚ and roughly 530‚000 occur just among Medicare recipients in outpatient
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Medication Administrationrsrizontal Violeneed to be considered during the time of administration. verything. Medications should always be Errors By: Amanda Sandstrom Grand Canyon University: NRS-433V April 13‚ 2013 Problem Statement Medication errors are one of the most common errors in healthcare. Sentinel events lead to research in determining why errors were happening and how they can be prevented. Learning why medication errors occur‚ and the events leading up to the error is important
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Process This was an interesting study to read and examine. Medication errors are a significant problem‚ but not a problem that cannot be solved. There are precautions that can be taken to minimize the errors. The three specific areas the study focused on were prescription‚ transcription‚ and administration phase. Many errors occurred during all three phases‚ however‚ not all of the errors made it to the patients. Most of the errors that reached patients did not cause harm. Ethical considerations
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Critical appraisal guidelines: Quantitative study Medication errors has always been a major problem in healthcare. Drugs errors continue to claim many innocent lives. The purpose of the research was to identified the causes of medication errors during cardiopulmonary arrest. According by the article by Flannery & Parli (2016)‚ medication errors in the intensive care unit (ICU) range from 8.1 to 2344 per 1000 patient-days. Unfortunately‚ drug errors that occurred during Cardiac resuscitation are less
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Sample Annotated Bibliography Some of your courses at Ashford University will require you to write an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a working list of references—books‚ journal articles‚ online documents‚ etc.—that you will use for an essay‚ research paper‚ or project. Although there are no strict formatting guidelines for the annotated bibliography itself‚ each reference should be cited in APA format. After each citation‚ provide a summary of the source‚ indicating how it will
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Annotated Bibliography COM/220 July 11‚ 2012 Franco‚ C. 2009. Federal Domestic Illegal Drug Enforcement Efforts: Are They Working?: R4032. Congressional Research Service Report‚ P1-37‚ 41p. The article explains the approaches the Federal Domestic Drug Control can take in reducing illegal drug use. These approaches include stricter and tougher penalties. Horwitz‚ B. 2010. The Role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD): Confronting the Problem
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