Causes of medication errors and methods to reduce errors Nurses have an ethical and legal responsibility to assess a patient’s need for a drug‚ administer it safely and correctly and evaluate the response to it. They should always make patient safety a priority because patients rely on the nurse’s skills‚ knowledge and professionalism. Nurses have a critical role in administering medications to the patients by following the six rights of drug administration. These six rights are: Right medication
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the area of Covert Medication in a Dementia Patient. Dictionary reference of Covert is: Not openly acknowledge or displayed. Dictionary reference of Medication is: a drug or other form of medicine that is used to treat or prevent disease. (Oxford dictionaries online) Therefore it would be determined that there is an attempt to deceive the patient into accepting medication unknown to them‚ this statement although true‚ doesn’t mean all that all nurses who use covert medication are deceptive in their
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Is the age of responsibility 25 years old?. What I will be talking be explaining is why the age of responsibility should be 25 years old. According to Alan Greenblatt‚” In 2009 most of the states issues were by people younger than 21 years old”. This is why I believe that the legal age should be 25 because at the age of 18 years old the brain is only half developed and at 25 years of age it is fully developed. And if this keeps up we will have more and more teens dying‚ and the percentage will just
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The Dreadful Day It’s July 27‚ 2011. My uncle had just left our house‚ we‚ (my mother‚ father‚ and siblings)‚ were soon to follow. We were all headed to my grandmothers house. We all piled up into my dad’s new Ford. We had just passed BJ’s as I felt a tightening in my stomach‚ almost as if something dreadful were about to happen. Sure enough we rounded the corner and there were five or six pedestrian cars and two police vehicles. We slowed down and pulled to the corner of the road. I could not
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of Saturn Devouring His Son comes from a short story where Saturn learns of his fate‚ that one of his sons will kill him in order to take over for themselves. He decided to not live in fear‚ and instead to eat his children moments after they are born (Vallone). The whole painting is dark and dreary‚ exerting only dull colors. Because
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Worst Car Accident I Have Ever Had I felt a big thud at the front of my truck‚ and at that moment I did not know what had happened. Seconds later I felt my body turning with the vehicle. I grasped the wheel really hard with both of my hands‚ while the glass shattered in to pieces. My head‚ my chest‚ and my arms were soaking in blood. My heart was beating very fast. I thought it was the end of my life. That summer day on 2004‚ I was driving back from work in the afternoon and I took the South
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Bringing the Food Truck Revolution to Goa The mobile food industry has seen a massive resurgence‚ especially in big urban areas in the west. From their kitchens-on-wheels‚ they’re serving everything from sandwiches to gourmet cupcakes to cuisines from all over the world. And customers are gobbling it up. The new breed of mobile trucks sport vibrant colours and branding imagery. They are also tech and social media savvy‚ often using Twitter and Facebook to announce their locations. Many are owned
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past ten years. Huge multinational companies currently make billions of dollars on water they simply extract from the ground‚ slap a label on and sell at competitive prices. Examples of these companies includes: Aquafina (Pepsi)‚ Dasani (Coke)‚ Perrier (Nestle)‚ Evian‚ and Fiji Water among hundreds of others. Many countries have become very oriented toward bottled water. According to a 2001 World Wildlife Fund survey‚ individuals around the globe consume some 89 billion liters of bottle water annually
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tested over one 9 year and 13 year old. My prediction is that the 9 year old will not be able to conserve. The first experiment was using the 9 year girl. The experimenter first pour the same amount for each cup then ask the participant if there is the same amount of juice. The 9 year old says that “They are both the same”. For the second experiment was using the short and long container. The short container was pour into the longer container. Then the experimenter ask the 9 year old girl if there is
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Warning Scripture replaced by new type of Theism Placating the Reverend Fred Nile and the various religious lobbies is no easy task‚ but the NSW Government has taken to it with Yes Minister style obtuseness and Baldrick-like cunning. Maintaining its cuddly relationship with Scripture enthusiasts‚ the government has spent $300k on a comprehensive report‚ waited 18 months to release it (just before Easter)‚ and then refused to accept most of the recommendations. Particularly brazen‚ was both the
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