Medical Error: What the Public Should Know “For all of its strengths‚ our health care system still is plagued by avoidable errors.” -President Bill Clinton The issue of medical error is recognized as a very serious U.S. healthcare concern in terms of avoidable patient death and injury‚ achieving efficacious treatment‚ and in controlling the costs. The prevention of medical errors may seem to be a relatively simple task and with recent awareness‚ some improvements have been accomplished.
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Berman‚ A. (2004). Reducing medication errors through naming‚ labeling‚ and packaging. Journal of Medical Systems‚ 28(1)‚ 9-29. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:JOMS.0000021518.60670.10 This article talks about the different names of drugs that are similar and may cause medication errors in the healthcare field. Also‚ the article talks about many different ways to label and manufacture the medications so errors will be less. There are many different ways the pills look and are
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Trial and error is an experimental method of problem solving‚ repair‚ tuning‚ or obtaining knowledge. "Learning doesn’t happen from failure itself but rather from analyzing the failure‚ making a change‚ and then trying again." This approach can be seen as one of the two basic approaches to problem solving and is contrasted with an approach using insight and theory. However‚ there are intermediate methods which for example‚ use theory to guide the method‚ an approach known as guided empiricism.
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Preliminary Literature Review Description of Problem Medication errors are common in hospitals. The area with larger patient demand and patient with more complex cases are at higher risk for medication errors. The classification of medication errors is by prescription‚ omission‚ time‚ dose‚ inappropriate drugs‚ and disposal. Medication errors also cause emotional and financial losses to the hospitals‚ patients‚ teams‚ families‚ and societies. As the result
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What is perceptual error in the employee selection process? Making snap decesions‚Halo effect‚Hiring people like oneself‚Stero typing‚makng assumptions‚ gathering insufficient or irrevalent information. Explain the perceptual process in perception? As I see it‚ things look differently from this angle or that. Depending on my position‚ the point-of-view will vary which tends to distort my ability to grasp the verity of the realm within. Staying in one place too long develops a stale and monotheistic
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Immanuel Kant’s critique of the power of judgement is an analysis to point out the necessary conditions of what judgement is. His critique contains four moments which are four analyses of why human beings need to appeal to reason to establish beauty‚ rather than experience. He says that aesthetic judgements or what he likes to call judgements of taste are rooted in a person’s subjective feelings‚ but also contain universality. Kant believes our feelings of beauty are immensely different from our
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Each year‚ thousands of patients die in hospitals because of errors in medication. These deviations occur mostly because of the complex process of drug administration. Errors can arise from the complicated system of drug administration itself; from prescription to the actual administration to patients. These mistakes in drug administration can be caused by many factors. Some of the reasons why these errors occur are the inadequate knowledge and skills both by the prescribing physician and the administering
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EXERCISE 2 My involvement in the drug error is as follows. I was working on the night shift as the only qualified nurse with 2 nursing assistants. The late shift decided to administer the 10pm medications as a way of helping me. This however was key in me making the error that I did. If I had been left to do the 10pm medications by myself‚ this error would not have occurred. Patient PF was given her medication by the late staff‚ however she had spat them out. On going to give her these
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than you expected? Do you think there may have been a scoring error? Maybe you filled in a section incorrectly or your exam wasn’t graded properly? Scoring errors on the ACT are rare‚ but they are possible‚ and there are ways to identify and correct these errors. This guide will go over the steps you need to take in order to verify your scores‚ as well as what you should do to improve your score on future ACTs if there was no grading error. Did ACT‚ Inc. Make a Mistake? It’s very rare for ACT
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With reference to research discuss two errors in attributions. (22 marks) The Attribution Theory is a concept of social psychology that makes reference to how individuals feel the need to provide ‘cause to the events around us’. Fritz Heider first proposed the theory ‘The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958)‚ which was later developed by others such as Harold Kelley and Bernard Weiner. The developed definition of this theory refers to the role of our minds in relation to our social behaviour
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