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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and J. Turner. OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks. ACM SIGCOMM CCR‚ 2008. [11] R. N. Mysore‚ A. Pamporis‚ N. Farrington‚ N. Huang‚ P. Miri‚ S. Radhakrishnan‚ V. Subramanya‚ and A. Vahdat. PortLand: A Scalable‚ Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric. ACM SIGCOMM‚ 2009. [13] B. Lantz‚ B. Heller‚ and N. McKeown. A Network in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for Software-Definded Networks. ACM SIGCOMM‚ 2010. [14] Y. Zhang‚ H. Kameda‚ S. L. Hung. Comparison of dynamic and static load-balancing
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It was a busy day as usual. One principle nurse is in charge of twelve patients. This principle nurse was serving her morning round of medication to her patients. When she was serving medication to Mrs kay‚ medication error occurred. Mrs kay is a 40 years old lady who was admitted for Asthma. She had a drug allergy that is Augmentin and it was not key into Electronic Inpatient Medical Record (e-imr) by the on call doctor who clerked this case. That morning the principle nurse served Mrs kay her
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1(a): Disembarkation and Transit processes Passport and visa requirements General immigration procedures Once passengers have arrived from their journey to Heathrow airport‚ they go through immigration and immigration officers will check their passports and visas to make sure that only those who have a right to enter the country do so. The immigration process can be extremely quick if the flight is between two European Union countries. However‚ non-EU resident enter through a different channel
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Topology Diagram Topology Name Logical Characteristics Physical Characteristics Star Data passes through the hub to reach other devices on the network. Several devices having its own cable that connects to a central hub‚ or sometimes a switch‚ or even a Multi-station Access Unit (MAU). Data passes through the hub to reach other devices on the network. Ring Information is passed from one computer to another in either clock-wise direction or counter clock-wise direction and
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MAJOR: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. “The important thing is not to stop questioning‚ because curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity‚ of life and of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday” -Albert Einstein. Yes! It is quite true that with proper nurturing of this curiosity one can transform a fascination into an excellent mechanical faculty
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Digestion: the process whereby a biological entity processes a substance‚ in order to chemically convert the substance into nutrients. It usually involves mechanical manipulation and chemical action. Mechanical Digestion What is it? This type of digestion involves the mixing‚ grinding or crushing of large pieces of food into smaller places. Why does it take place? So that the food we consume is broken down into smaller pieces before we swallow it which in turn makes process of chemical digestion
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Healthcare Research and Quality (2000)‚ “medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related errors cost the economy from $17 to $29 billion each year”. In addition to the monetary cost of errors‚ the physical and psychological costs such as pain
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Weight Watchers - a simple‚ new approach to weight loss. Weight Watchers has helped millions of people around the world to lose weight by using a healthy and rewarding system (WWI‚ 2013). This company was founded by Jean Nidetch in 1963‚ and today the company operates in 30 different countries (Nordqvist‚ 2009). There is a whole world of temptations out there and Weight Watchers makes it possible for anyone to be able to control that desire to eat anything you want and keep the pounds off. They use
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Road Accidents caused by human error Evaluate the effectiveness of a law legislation that has been enforced to reduce road accidents caused by human error. Every day in our society it is said that according to statistics 90% of road accidents are caused by human error through the use of speeding‚ phones and alcohol. There have been a number of laws and legislation that has been emplaced to decrease the number of accidents caused by human error which include No phones are being used while driving
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