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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Attributions are reasons individuals give to explain a particular behaviour or outcome. They are often used to help improve a person’s ability to control a variety of future social and psychological situations (Anderson and Riger‚ 1991). According to Weiner (1985) a person who experiences success is likely going to try and reintroduce the same causes‚ whereas Kelley (1973) explains someone who experiences failure is going do attributional search in hopes a better chance of succeeding in the future
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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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Portfolio Performance Evaluation and Attribution Analysis Date of Submission 22nd June‚ 2011 Portfolio Performance Evaluation and Attribution Analysis Submitted to: Mahmood Osman Imam‚ Ph.D. Professor Department of Finance University of Dhaka Submitted by: Sakib Ahmed Chowdhury B.B.A. 13th Batch Section: A‚ ID: 13-161 Group # 9 Department of Finance University of Dhaka 22nd June‚ 2011 Dr. Mahmood Osman Imam Professor Department of Finance Faculty of Business Studies
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Perceptual Errors in your Organisation and how will you correct them. 1) Prototypes:- Usually according to the group or profession you belong to‚ you are assumed to have certain characteristics‚ whether you have them or not. In our organisation‚ we have a team manager who has an impression of being unapproachable and unfriendly‚ only because of his position. Due to this reason none of the employees approach him for help‚ even though it might hurt productivity. Since a few colleagues and
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Error Analysis and Interlanguage S. P. Corder Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Walton Street‚ Oxford ox2 6DP Acknowledgements London Glasgow New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associates in Beirut Berlin Ibadan Mexico City Nicosia ISBN o 19 437073 9 © S. PitCorder 1981 First published ig8i Second impression 1982 This book is sold subject to the
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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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