Unit 1 Responsibility‚ Accountability & Confidentiality |Q1. Define responsibility - what does it mean? | |Responsibility is an expectation to carry out your duties to the very best of your ability in accordance with your position and your | |level of training. | |Q2. Define accountability
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patients. It is about the covert administration of medications to patients‚ or administering medication without the patient’s knowledge. It presents many legal and ethical questions which I will discuss. The legal and ethical issues presented by this article are multiple and varied. I was not aware that this practice took place‚ but I am not surprised that it does. Covert medication administration to psychiatric patients who are not compliant is defined as administration of medication without the patient’s
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Certificate Office Administration School Based Assessment On An analysis of the factors affecting the flow of communication at LIME Jamaica Ltd
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Rights of Medication Administration Health care providers are responsible for ensuring patient safety and quality of care at all times. Nurses play a vital role in provision of patient care. Many of the tasks of nursing carry some degree of risk‚ with medication administration having one of the greatest risk factors. Serious errors may occur in approximately 2 per 1‚000 prescriptions (Lesar et al‚ 1990). The rate of adverse drug events are estimated at approximately 1%‚ with 12% to 30% of them
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Administration and Politics Dichotomy 1 Woodrow Wilson’s essay‚ “The Study of Administration” (1887)‚ is about the separation of politics and administration in public administration. There is still a lot of debating among politicians and scholars alike whether this dichotomy is practical or not. There are some advantages and disadvantages about this theory. Wilson believed that it was needed to
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Are Administration and Politics Dichotomy Practical/Workable? Derek Brown Grantham University Abstract The issues of politics and administration dichotomy first raised by Woodrow Wilson continue to generate debate among scholars of public administration in modern time. Why some think Wilson’s idea was useful‚ others reject the idea as impossible. And in your opinion‚ is that distinction practical and workable? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using such a dichotomy today as a way
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Introduction………………………………………02 Overview of HTTP 1.1…………………………... 02 Existing Implementations……………………….. 03 Apache……………………………………………... 03 Lighttpd…………………………………………..... 03 Jigsaw…………………………………………….... 03 Web server……………………………………….. 04 Web administration…………………………….... 04 How a Web server works………………………... 04 Administering the Web Server………………….. 06 Logging…………………………………………….. 06 Web Server Backup Procedures…………………. 06 Recovering From a Security Compromise………. 07 Security
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THE SIX RIGHTS OF DRUG ADMINISTRATION Right Drug Many drugs have similar spellings and variable concentrations. Before the administration of the medication‚ it is imperative to compare the exact spelling and concentration of the prescribed drug with the medication card or drug profile and the medication container. Regardless of the drug distribution system used‚ the drug label should be read at least three times: 1. Before removing the drug from the shelf or unit dose cart. 2
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process involves a number of risk points during which errors can occur. The NPSGS establish procedural safeguards in order to protect patients from medication administration errors. The standards also serve to protect health care personnel from the personal and professional consequences of making such errors. The NPSGS for medication administration involve recommendations for the following risk points: medication reconciliation‚ proper identification of a patient prior to dispensing medication‚ and correct
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