Medication Errors

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error rates. We only have little evidence on which to base interventions. Based on the research literature, we can have confidence in only two aspects of our knowledge. First, data from voluntary self-reports of medication errors is neither reliable nor valid. Yet, this is the evidence most available for evaluating quality improvement.
Medication errors cane be prevented or even eliminated by using a simple technique on how to administer medication to a patient and lowering the risk of errors. Braking down the steps as if we are using the nursing process. In medication I would apply smart outcomes form the third step of the nursing process ADPIE. Interventions to improve the quality of voluntary self-report data include changing the culture to focus on system issues rather than individual deficiencies and having explicit and visible quality management system responses to these data. (Physicians, 2015)
Use patient-specific identifiers, to help verifying that the medications are ...

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