dispensing medication to patients comprises a critical juncture in patient care. The 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
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Refusing Medication The United States of America is the most diverse country. It has citizens and permeant residences from all over the world‚ some ethical groups have a very stricken values and beliefs to medicine and treatment. In the medical field doctors face a tremendous tribulations dealing with patients from different backgrounds. Some people have different values and beliefs when it comes to medicine‚ while others have a difficult life circumstances that limits the options of treatments
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SWOT analysis of Microsoft This is a Microsoft Corporation SWOT analysis for 2013. For more information on how to do SWOT analysis please refer to our article. Company background Name | Microsoft Corporation | Industries served | Computer software‚ Electronics | Geographic areas served | Worldwide | Headquarters | U.S. | Current CEO | Steve Ballmer | Revenue | $ 73.72 billion (2012) | Profit | $ 16.97 billion (2012) | Employees | 94‚000 (2012) | Main Competitors | Apple Inc
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AEREN FOUNDATION’S Maharashtra Govt. Reg. No.: F-11724 AN ISO 9001 : 2000 CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL B-SCHOOL SUBJECT: ACCOUNTING Total Marks: 80 N.B. : 1) All questions are compulsory Q1) ABC Ltd. Produces room coolers. The company is considering whether it should continue to manufacture air circulating fans itself or purchase them from outside. Its annual requirement is 25000 units. An outsider vendor is prepared to supply fans for Rs 285 each. In addition‚ ABC Ltd will have to
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Nurses are the health care professionals that collect and prepare medications for patients. They examine the doctor’s orders to see what medications patients are prescribed. Errors can occur in the distribution of these medications. As a result‚ the nursing ethic of do no harm may not occur. According to McIntyre‚ Thomlinson‚ & McDonald‚ “nurses are held in high regard” (2006‚ p.360). As such‚ nurses must keep this positive concept‚ as we are the health professionals that care for people when they
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1991 - 1999 : Raising the Profile of MAICSA e-mail print With these epochal and momentous events behind it‚ MAICSA entered the decade of the nineties stronger and surer of itself. A series of memorable events marked the chairmanship of Mardzuki Abdullah who served for two years from 1990 to 1991. The year 1991 witnessed the first convocation ceremony for ICSA graduates held on 27 July. It was officiated by Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn‚ the Deputy Minister of Education. It was a historic and personally
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GA-2 February 25‚ 2012 Dear Audit Staff: This memo will give us an idea of what what special business knowledge we will need to have in regards to the basic type of business and products Apollo Shoes manages. It will also provide the necessary staffing we will need to have for this audit. Apollo Shoes provides high tech electronics for todays modern athlete. They’re committed to pushing the envelope and expanding they’re products to the global and galactic marketplace. With this
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am Yogeswaary d/o Marathandavan from Saito College‚ studying Diploma in Business Information Technology. This report is regarding Business Information System subject‚ for this assignment I need to do survey by choose one department in an organization and carry out an investigation on the usage of information system in that department. I choose “ASIAPRIMA RESOURCES” organization for my assignment. In the organization I choose Marketing department for my research because I need
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Introduction This assignment is a reflective account of my first experience when assisting a patient to eat lunch. For the purpose of this assignment I will refer to this patient as Mrs C to maintain confidentiality and comply with the NMC code (2008). It will discuss the importance of non-verbal communication when providing effective nursing care to the elderly. As a framework for this reflection I am going to use the Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle which uses 6 stages; description‚ thoughts and
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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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