Medication errors occur often in the nursing field. “A medication error is defined as a failure in the treatment process that leads to‚ or has the potential to lead to‚ harm to the patient.” [(Aronson‚ Medication Errors.)] Nurses make unfortunate mistakes everyday . “According to a April 7 report in Health Affairs‚ medical errors now cost our over-burdened health care system over $17.1 billion dollars a year; the cost of avoidable hospital readmissions adds another $13 to $18 billion dollars a
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Education Review‚ ISSN1548-6613‚ USA Error analysis and the EFL classroom teaching XIE Fang‚ JIANG Xue-mei (College of Foreign Languages‚ Liaoning Normal University‚ Dalian Liaoning 116029‚ China) Abstract: This paper makes a study of error analysis and its implementation in the EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom teaching. It starts by giving a systematic review of the concepts and theories concerning EA (Error Analysis)‚ the various reasons causing errors are comprehensively explored. The
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I’m looking at a very objective piece of artwork. Yet even with it being such common two-dimensional shape it is still very unique and tells a lot about the artist. I believe that the “Seven Projection Designs for Salome 1986” heart is related to a sorrow or loss felt during the play. Jim Dine the artist is used diagonal lines. While he also used very unusual contrasting colors for a heart because ordinarily‚ the color of a heart is just red‚ but in here the artist used black‚ white‚ blue‚ gray
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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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A Comedy of Errors is made better by the July 15th production because of the physical acting‚ portrayal of both Antipholous’ and Dromio’s relationships‚ and the situational comedy of Shakespeare. Physicality is the biggest addition to Shakespeare’s original piece. Some of these instances aren’t in Shakespeare’s stage directions‚ but only serves to enhance the performance for the audience. The first time Antipholous S. comes into contact with his twin brother’s wife for example. In the play Adriana
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Near misses and errors in medication administration is a trend that may occur more frequently than perceived‚ mainly due to the fear of reporting. Medication administration errors occur due to a plethora of factors including staffing limitations‚ knowledge of pharmacology‚ miscommunication‚ and the inevitable ’human’ factor (Durham‚ 2015). Nurses may fear the repercussions of reporting or not be clear on what events need to be reported. To improve incident reporting‚ clarification is needed of which
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Program Proposal: A seminar and workshop entitled “The danger of Medication error due to understaffed nurses.” BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM The nursing profession has traditionally accepted responsibility to assure that safe and accessible health care is available to the public at all times‚ including times when nurses are in short supply. The profession continues to accept such responsibility and also recognizes the need to identify strategies to promote the availability
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Trends and Data Management Medication Errors Kim Orta University of Phoenix Health Care Informatics HCS 482 Mary Trevino October 24‚ 2013 Data Collection Tools EMR (Electronic Medical Record) EHR (Electronic Health Record) CPOE Computerized Provider Order Entry) UOR (Unusual Occurrence Report) Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Provide complete‚ reliable access to health information Improves safety and outcomes Reduces and prevents medication errors “EHRs don’t just contain and transmit
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and Errors JEFFERY MCCOMAS‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNS MICHELLE RIINGEN‚ DNP‚ RN‚ CNS-BC SON CHAE KIM‚ PhD‚ RN Congress authorized an initiative in 2004 to create a national health information technology infrastructure to improve patient outcomes through increased efficiency.1 The stated goal was to have electronic health records (EHRs) implemented for all Americans by 2014.2‚3 The current literature supports the use of EHR because of the potential for higher quality of care‚ reduction in medication errors‚ ease
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Introduction to Measurements & Error Analysis The Uncertainty of Measurements Some numerical statements are exact: Mary has 3 brothers‚ and 2 + 2 = 4. However‚ all measurements have some degree of uncertainty that may come from a variety of sources. The process of evaluating this uncertainty associated with a measurement result is often called uncertainty analysis or error analysis. The complete statement of a measured value should include an estimate of the level of confidence associated
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