"A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional‚ patient‚ or consumer” (NCCMERP‚ 2016). According to the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (2010)‚ medication errors are among the most common medical errors‚ harming at least 1.5 million people every year. Someone who has experience working with medications and the errors of them would be Laurie Dworkin. Laurie
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Contrary to popular social belief‚ it is NOT illegal to smoke tobacco products at any age. However‚ the SALE of tobacco products is highly regulated with legal legislation. Demographics Smokers by age "Each day‚ approximately 6‚000 young persons try their first cigarette and approximately 3‚000 become daily smokers." 12.8 percent middle school students reported using some form of tobacco (cigarettes‚ smokeless‚ cigars‚ pipes) in the past month. Current cigarette use among middle school students
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CONSUMER LAW Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is a body of law that governs issues that is related to any method of retail. It is set in place to protect the welfare of the consumer and the manufacturer‚ done so through the use of contracts (both oral and written) and other means of lawful actions. Compliance is the following and meeting of rules and/or standards. Compliance can been seen throughout the marketing industry whenever there are no difficulties or complications in the industry. The Competition
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English grammar matters. We all want to write a good paper without any flaws and errors. The problem is that writing a good paper is seldom fun. If you’ve studied a foreign language in school‚ if English is your secondary language‚ you no doubt will be in problems because you won’t have that much idea to write organized writings without any errors. It can get tedious. Errors such as coma splice error‚ Subject- verb agreement error‚ weak thesis‚ weak evidential supports‚ counterarguments and your general
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internet‚ but people have their personal accounts and information stored in it. I believe that the government - federal‚ state and local levels - should not be able to regulate the internet‚ social media and be able to read our emails. However‚ they are allowed to monitor internet activities in order to be able to recognize and neutralize any potential threats to themselves or the country‚ but so long it does not violate the fourth amendment of no unreasonable searches or violation of privacy. This continues
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Memory and Human Error Abstract The concept of human memory is yet to be completely understood with scientists still disputing the many theories and models. Undoubtedly‚ it is impossible to rule out human error completely; however‚ by adopting appropriate procedures the probability of errors can be minimized. This essay investigates the scientific studies of human memory and how empirical findings can be implemented to reduce human error at work. This paper arrives at the conclusion that four
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After specifying the inclusion criteria of “clinical documentation‚” “documentation errors‚” and “physicians” as well as the exclusion criteria of “nursing‚” the final number of articles included were 15. The articles reviewed clinical documentation process and strategies along with the impact of documentation errors made by physicians. A summary of the articles can be seen below in Table 1. Documentation Errors and Financial Correlations: Zhang et al. (2013)‚ copy and pasting within electronic
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Backup utilities cpio cpio command is used to process archive files cpio stands for “copy in‚ copy out”. cpio performs the following three operations. * Copying files to an archive * Extracting files from an archive * Passing files to another directory tree cpio takes the list of files from the standard input while creating an archive‚ and sends the output to the standard output. Syntax $cpio options devicename -i | (copy in) cpio -i extracts files from the standard input
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Prevent Medical Errors One in seven Medicare patients in hospitals experience a medical error. But medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system: In hospitals‚ clinics‚ surgery centers‚ doctors’ offices‚ nursing homes‚ pharmacies‚ and patients’ homes. Errors can involve medicines‚ surgery‚ diagnosis‚ equipment‚ or lab reports. They can happen during even the most routine tasks‚ such as when a hospital patient on a salt-free diet is given a high-salt meal. Most errors result from
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Tobacco use is a modifiable risk factor that is directly related to chronic diseases such as stroke‚ cancer and heart disease. The economic impact of tobacco use is significant‚ with an estimated 7.5 billion spent in Ontario alone in 2011 . Increased efforts by the government to reduce marketing venues have been implemented to attempt to reduce the incidence of smoking . In marketing a product‚ we often refer to the four ‘Ps’: price‚ promotion‚ product‚ and placement. The significance of marketing
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