This process primarily involves the provision of drugs in solid dose forms like tablets and capsules with high degree of drug stability. The main advantage of oral administration of medication is that doses are normally required to be taken once or Continue Reading...
Medication Practice Improvement Episode Medication Intercept An intravenous antibiotic Benzylpenicillin (Benpen) course was prescribed for a child to treat acute osteomyelitis. The 30mg/kg dose calculation was duly followed. The child weighed 28kg Continue Reading...
Medication Reconciliation Evidence-Based Practice and the Procedural Education of Nurses Medication reconciliation is a critical issue in healthcare reform. Today, improvement in this area of treatment could have a transformative effect on the curr Continue Reading...
Medication Errors Over Medication Overmedication can be described as an inappropriate medical treatment that occurs when a patient takes unnecessary or excessive medications. This may happen because the prescriber is unaware of other medications Continue Reading...
One proven solution to decrease medication errors is use of medication software such as CPOE. It has significantly reduced errors in prescribing, transcription, and dispensing of medications (Hidle). It also has the potential to decrease errors in Continue Reading...
Population and Global Health: Medication Adherence in Seniors Assess the preventive and protective healthcare needs of a community of individuals, including emergency preparedness. Develop a plan for using behavioral change techniques to promote opt Continue Reading...
medication errors by nurses. There are six references for this paper. Health care professionals are responsible for the welfare and safety of their patients. One of the most dangerous and preventable mistakes a nurse can make is a medication error. Continue Reading...
Errors are unavoidable in our everyday routines. Numerous mistakes are part of the changing cycle of psychological-behavioral adjustments that lead to appropriate behavioral abilities. The following of medical directions is an essential element of th Continue Reading...
Clinical Application Paper Medication errors are a serious public health problem and they pose a serious threat to patient safety. Medication errors are costly from an economic, human, and social viewpoint since all patients are potentially vulnerabl Continue Reading...
Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Medication Error Rates by Nursing Staff Today, one of the most challenging problems facing nurses practicing in any setting, but most especially tertiary healthcare facilities, is the adverse drug reactions caused Continue Reading...
Medication errors have serious direct and indirect results, and are usually the consequence of breakdowns in a system of care…Ten to 18% of all reported hospital injuries have been attributed to medication errors" (Mayo & Duncan 2004: 209). Continue Reading...
Medication Error Disclosure: Ethical Implications Although making mistakes may be an inevitable fact of life, when nurses make errors in regards to medications, they have an obligation to report the error. From a deontological ethical perspective, th Continue Reading...
" The right route Likewise, this clinician advises, "The administrator must give the medication via the right route. In preparing the medication, the triple check will identify the route to be given on the medication order." The right time Penult Continue Reading...
Addressing Complex Issues in Healthcare SettingsAddressing Complex Issues in HealthcareAt present, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration receives more than 400,000 reports concerning drug-related medication errors in the United States each year (Medi Continue Reading...
Medical Safety Poor medical safety practices result in over 40,000 deaths per year, of that 7,000 deaths are attributed to medication-related medical errors. There is no excuse for negligence when it comes to human lives. It is imperative that the m Continue Reading...
Nursing One need only read the newspaper "Classified" ads to realize that employers are trying many clever marketing tactics to attract prospective nurses into their organizations. Many are offering sign-on bonuses, extra benefits and other amenitie Continue Reading...
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a structured methodology for analyzing serious adverse events. According to Wachman et al. (2018) RCA is a quality improvement tool that defines the main problem and identifies the actions necessa Continue Reading...
Patient safety is one of the key aspects of healthcare delivery and a critical component in determining the quality of healthcare services. Patient safety is influenced by many factors including medication safety, which is identified as one of the mo Continue Reading...
Nursing Research Benefits Our Nursing Practice One of the most critical strategic challenges currently facing hospitals now and for the foreseeable future is the national nursing shortage. (Corning, 2002). The current nursing shortage is causing gr Continue Reading...
One very timely and cogent example of this is within the realm of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS). These systems are interactive computer programs designed to assist medical professionals in the analysis and diagnosis and provide greater hea Continue Reading...
Asthma and ER utilization Asthma Asthma is a particularly debilitating condition. Asthma is characterized by a tightening in the chest with difficulty in breathing and wheezing. This difficulty in breathing can result, at best, in a decrease in qua Continue Reading...
MEDICATION SAFETY EDUCATION PROGRAM 1Practice Question: Medication Safety Education Program to Reduce the Risk of Harm Caused by Medication ErrorsThe PICO project seeks to implement a medication safety education program to help reduce instances of me Continue Reading...
Medication Error Medical errors cost lives, and they cost health care organizations valuable resources. Nurses are often confused about their ethical as well as legal obligations, especially with a complex, constantly changing, global healthcare mar Continue Reading...
Medication changes with technology: A description and detailed review of five clinical electronic systems that correlate with the process of medication administration technology. Computerized physician / prescribed order entry (CPOE) In 2000, follo Continue Reading...
Medication Administration Entails Six Rights, Namely: Right individual Right medicine Right dosage Right route Right time, and Right documentation (Six Rights of Medication Administration, n.d; Perry, Potter & Ostendorf, 2015). Right Indivi Continue Reading...
But Canada took steps to defer sales of the medicine which was provoked by 20 sudden losses of lives; out of 14 were children, among those consuming the prescribed doses of Adderall XR. There were reported cases of about a dozen strokes, two among c Continue Reading...
According to Daughton, a researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Indeed, deaths from medication errors occurring both in and out of hospitals exceed 7,000 annually in the United States -- exceeding those from workplace injuries" (20 Continue Reading...
Natural/Holistic Medication Holistic medication is the science and art that addresses the care of a person as a whole, which is the spirit, the body and the mind. This therefore means that each person is considered as a unique individual; and as a r Continue Reading...
Prescription, Nonprescription and Herbal Medicines Prescription, Non-prescription and Herbal Medications: Exploring Interactions in the Geriatric Population Geriatric medicine, generally referred to as just "geriatrics" is a branch of internal medi Continue Reading...
However, because healthy cells can repair damage more effectively, the cancerous cells in an area sustain more damage from the treatment. In order to help the healthy cells recover from the radiotherapy, after five days of treatment a patient will o Continue Reading...
Introduction Personalized training is centered on patient evaluation, willingness to be taught, patient’s needs as well as those of the family members. Prior studies have supported this model of personalized training as it is considered success Continue Reading...
Addiction of Teenagers to Prescription Drugs Addiction of teenage prescription drugs The problem of addiction of teenagers to prescription drugs has been on rise in modern days. It is estimated that daily in the United States 2,500 youth abuse pres Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemmas in Responding to Nursing Medication ErrorsIt is well documented that medication errors made by nurses are among the most prevalent but also the most preventable types of adverse patient incidents that occur in health care settings to Continue Reading...
QUALITY IMPROVEMENTEvidence-Based Practice for Reducing Medication ErrorsThe National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention defines a medication error as a preventable event that may lead to patient harm or inappropriate Continue Reading...
Patient non-compliance with medication is a problem that can have adverse effects on patient outcomes. Non-compliance with medication can occur in the in-patient or out-patient setting. Leigh (2010) estimates as many as 50% of all prescriptions fille Continue Reading...
And Li, (2006). These researchers took previous findings regarding the efficacy of ACE inhibitors (Fosinopril, in particular) and applied them to children of different racial populations. Moreover, Menon et al. (2006) investigated whether the eviden Continue Reading...
Diabetes Management Diabetes mellitus is one of the non-communicable diseases that have continued to be in the forefront of public health challenges. Diabetes occurs when the body system is unable to produce sufficient insulin. Typically, insulin is Continue Reading...
