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  1. PDF Medication Error Reporting: a Qualitative Study Exploring Student

    report medication errors, and what other factors influenced their intent to report medication errors. Student nurses were used for this study because the literature suggested pre-licensure

  2. Factors influencing the reporting of medication errors and near misses

    Aim This study aimed to systematically review empirical evidence on factors influencing nurses to report medication errors and near misses. ... As this review was done in the context of a doctoral thesis, the protocol was not registered but was reviewed by two senior investigators.

  3. Medication Administration Errors and Associated Factors Among Nurses

    Globally, medication errors are leading causes of different injuries and avoidable harms in the health care system attributing to about 10% of the overall preventable harm for hospitalized patients. 10-12 In 2017, World Health Organization reported that the annual global cost associated with medication errors has been estimated to reach US ...

  4. Strategies for Reducing Medication Errors in an Outpatient Internal

    injuries everyday resulting in costs of more than 1 trillion dollars yearly (Cloete, 2015). Preventing medication errors ensures patient safety, decreases morbidity and mortality, helps with quick recovery, decreases lengths of stay, and reduces costs involved in. escalation of care and litigations (Nute, 2014).

  5. PDF Exploring medication errors and doctors' and nurses' perceptions of

    Exploring medication errors and doctors' and nurses' perceptions of them in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) By. JOANNE JOHNSTON. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of MSc (by Research) at the University of Central Lancashire . October 2015

  6. PDF Medication Errors

    1.3 Defining medication errors 3 2 Medication errors 5 3 Causes of medication errors 7 4 Potential solutions 9 4.1 Reviews and reconciliation 9 4.2 Automated information systems 10 4.3 Education 10 4.4 Multicomponent interventions 10 5 Key issues 12 5.1 Injection use 12 5.2 Paediatrics 12 5.3 Care homes 13 6 Practical next steps 14

  7. Medication Errors: It's a Matter of Time

    overwork, fatigue and medication related errors were shown to be more prevalent in a 12-. hour work shift versus an 8-hour work shift. The study expressed that 37.5% of. medication errors were related to the nurse's workload. The author did state that when the.

  8. Patient-Nurse Partnerships to Prevent Medication Errors: A Concept

    Medication errors have a direct adverse effect on the patient's life and treatment and have a negative effect on the therapeutic effect by increasing the overall medical expenditures due to secondary costs, delaying treatment, ... This paper is the doctoral thesis of Hee-Ja Jeong.

  9. PDF Experience of nurses about medica- tion errors

    Experience of nurses about medication errors a literature review. Jyväskylä: JAMK University of Applied Sciences, May 2021, 40 pages. School of health and welfare. Degree programme in nursing. Bachelor's thesis. Permission for web publication: Yes. Language of publication: English.

  10. PDF Exploring the Relationship between Reporting Medication Errors and

    Hanna, Emily J., "Exploring the Relationship between Reporting Medication Errors and Nurse Fear of Retribution" (2014). Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects. Paper 18. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Hunt School of Nursing at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nursing ...

  11. Medication Errors and Patient Safety: Evaluation of Physicians

    The evaluation included data relevant to medication errors such as lab-tests, medication orders and patients' progress notes documented by providers. Statistical Analysis was performed using SPSS IBM version 25. A p-value of 0.05 was used. Descriptive statistics were applied using frequencies and percentages for categorical data, while ...

  12. Full article: Medication errors and processes to reduce them in care

    Introduction. The World Health Organisation (WHO), (Citation 2017) stated that "unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems across the world."The WHO cited a review by Lehnbom, Stewart, Manias, and Westbrook (Citation 2014) who concluded "medication reconciliation identified unintentional medication ...

  13. Medication errors in hospitals: Exploring medication safety through

    Medication errors are one of the most common incidents in healthcare and are associated with considerable patient harm. Learning from previous errors can aid in designing preventive measures. ... The thesis also provided new knowledge about the role of technology in improving medication safety. Furthermore, the thesis proposes effective ...

  14. Experience of nurses about medication errors: A Literature Review

    Medication errors compromise patient safety rights by causing morbidity or in worst scenarios mortality. The globe spends US$ 42 billion on costs associated with medication errors annually. Europe's 15% of annual hospital expenditure is used on treating accidents due compromised patient safety. WHO in 2017 launched a campaign on "medication ...

  15. Testing a theoretical model for severe medication errors

    The second purpose was to examine direct effects between nursing units' error-producing conditions and severe medication errors. The third purpose was to test the moderating role of learning climate in the relationships between error-producing conditions and severe medication errors in acute care hospitals.

  16. Medication errors: a focus on nursing practice

    Medication errors have been considered a global issue and it is essential to focus on the causes, results, and solutions. [11, 72] The proportion of medication errors among nurses varies in different studies, it was 57.4% in Ethiopia, 42.1% in Jordan, 41.9% in Australia, and 28.9% in the USA.

  17. Medication Errors: What Is Their Impact?

    The loss of a loved one can be devastating. The knowledge that their death could have been prevented makes it harder still. Medication errors can result in severe patient injury or death, and they are preventable. Although most errors are minor, there is a huge spectrum—and some are fatal. On January 4, 2001, Englishman Wayne Jowett was injected with a dose of the cytotoxic drug vincristine ...

  18. Medication Errors: An Overview for Clinicians

    Advanced age is a patient-related risk factor for medication errors. The American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria have been developed and regularly updated to alert health care professionals about potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. 25 The most problematic medications are anticholinergics, sedatives, and those that may cause orthostatic hypotension.

  19. How to Prevent or Reduce Prescribing Errors: An Evidence Brief for

    Policy Options for Preventing or Reducing Prescribing Errors. Of the 1,191 systematic reviews identified, 40 were selected and analyzed in order to draw up the options provided (Figure 1).From the set of interventions extracted from the systematic reviews, we devised four options for dealing with prescribing errors, which we present below: (1) Promoting educational actions on prudent ...

  20. Observational study on medication administration errors at a University

    Background Medication administration errors are frequent and cause significant harm globally. However, only a few data are available on their prevalence, nature, and severity in developing countries, particularly in Brazil. This study attempts to determine the incidence, nature, and factors associated with medication administration errors observed in a university hospital. Methods This was a ...

  21. Addressing the Problem of Medication Errors Essay

    Medication errors are some of the major factors that contribute to poor patient outcomes. These errors often arise from the lack of sufficient knowledge and experience on the part of nurses, resulting in inappropriate diagnosis and, consequently, wrong prescription of treatment. Some of the negative effects associated with medication errors ...

  22. Medication Errors: Causes and Consequences Essay

    First, the human factor plays a major role in medication errors. The wrong understanding of the drugs qualifies as an error, late provision of medication from the schedule, wrong dose calculations, lack of double-checking, and low adherence to protocols also qualify as medication errors. Most of the reports state that majority of medication ...

  23. Medication Errors Essay

    Medication Errors. Morgan Galer Brigham Young University - Idaho NURS 310 Linda Orchard September 21, 2020 "Promoting health safety in healthcare settings is a global challenge, with an estimated one in ten patients being harmed whilst receiving care."

  24. The Issue of the Medication Errors

    According to researchers from Johns Hopkins University, 250,000 Americans die yearly due to medical mistakes (Tigard, 2019, p. 103). Moreover, the results of medical errors, in addition to death, may also include deterioration of patients' health or disability. Get a custom essay on The Issue of the Medication Errors. 188 writers online.