Interruptions and Medication Errors Stephanie Graber St. Catherine University Abstract Healthcare settings can be hectic‚ demanding‚ time-constrained environments. Within these environments‚ nurses are expected to perform tasks that often require their undivided attention. However‚ nurses are frequently interrupted‚ which can distract their attention and add to the complexity of their work and affect patient safety. This paper systemically reviews the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions
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healthcare system almost every day. A specific example is when a staff nurse makes multiple medication errors in a short period of time. Medication errors are preventable events that may cause or lead to improper medication use or client harm while under the care of a healthcare professional (Vaismoradi‚ Griffiths‚ Turunen‚ & Jordan‚ 2016). According to Vaismoradi and colleagues‚ hospital medical errors have killed more people than HIV/AIDS‚ breast cancer‚ or motor vehicle accidents. Furthermore‚ medication
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Medication errors remain the most preventable cause of injury in healthcare today impacting and influencing all six QSEN (Quality & Safety Education for Nurses) competencies; Patient Centered Care‚ Safety‚ Evidence Based Practice‚ Quality Improvement‚ Informatics‚ Teamwork‚ Collaboration‚ and Professionalism. The effective implementation of medication reconciliation is an effective tool in reducing medication errors‚ eliminating costly mistakes‚ fostering teamwork‚ collaboration and professionalism
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For my finial reflection I have decided to reflect on the reflective practice itself and my abilities to practice reflection‚ as it appears I am having some issues with the process. After receiving an A- on my last reflection‚ I spoke with my Faculty Advisor (FA) with the intention of discovering why I was not achieving marks in the A+ range on my reflections‚ and what I need to work on to improve on the quality of my reflections. Her feedback was that I was too broad in my approach; I spend too
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Nursing practice has been transformed from a basic healing and caring concept to a multiple facets of systematic health care collections in an imperative need of rapid changing society over the last century. In order to ensure safe practice of nursing‚ regulation and supervision by legislations serves its purpose. Nurses could obtain nursing regulation information through numerous sources. “National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is an independent‚ not-for-profit organization through
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our actions to better ourselves both professionally and personally. Reflection is important in the nursing profession as it allows us to think about our actions and discuss how we could perform them differently. We can then decide what we would do differently should the situation arise again (Johns and Burnie‚ 2013). Reflection plays a big role in developing the student into a nurse. Reflective practice involves exploration of oneself and it can lead to more competent practitioners (Barbour‚ 2013).
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NURSING PRACTICE With regards to the nursing practice‚ we should implement the right interventions to our client concerning the condition and needs of the client. Patients who have undergone surgery specially children are all risk to complications. Operation is sometimes necessary to promote health and alleviate the suffering of patients. it is a by critical process because surgery itself can lead to complications. The journal implies that the patient’s safety is in the hands of the health team
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The most common breach of medication administration is medication errors. This is why it is important to have a culture and environment of safety. Administration of medications is a basic activity in nursing practice. Nurses therefore must be knowledgeable about specific drugs and their administration‚ patient response‚ drug interactions‚ patient allergies‚ and related resources. Safety and prevention of medication errors are essential” (Kee 2015). A culture and environment of safety for medication
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to identify a nursing skill observed by myself whilst I was on my practice placement. The skill which I will be focussing on is the first phase of the nursing process in the form of the initial assessment interview. The client had been referred to the mental health services by his consultant and social worker‚ in order to continue his care in the community‚ after his discharge from a psychiatric ward. I was introduced to the client‚ and his permission was given for me to use my nursing skill of observation
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Reflective Practice in the context of teaching ESOL Reflective practice engages practitioners in a continuous cycle of self-observation and self-evaluation in order to understand their own actions and the reactions they prompt in themselves and in learners (Brookfield‚ 1995; Thiel‚ 1999). Reflective practice is considered as an evolving concept which views learning as “an active process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse‚ evaluate and so inform learning about
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