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    Medication-administration errors in an urban mental health hospital: A direct observation study This research was embarked upon to present medication errors throughout a United Kingdom mental health hospital and to explore the dynamics that may cause an increase in medication administration errors. An evaluation of articles printed between 1963 to December 2013 was completed in order to find how many had been published on medication administration errors in mental health hospitals by direct observation

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    Reducing Medication Errors In Hospitals Patient centered care and patient safety are the most important roles in nursing. “Serious medication errors are common in hospitals and often occur during order transcription or administration of medication” (Poon et al., 2010. p. 1). One important aspect of nursing is drug administration. It is a multidisciplinary task including doctors, pharmacist and nurses. This paper will show evidence that using electronic medication systems instead of paper based

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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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    Medication Errors: Prevention Using Information Technology Systems Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming and costing millions of patients in the world very year. Prevention of medication errors is, therefore, a high priority worldwide. Nowadays, various information technology (IT) systems are widely used to prevent and reduce medication errors. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with patient-specific decision support is one of the most powerful IT systems

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    (2012). Medication administration practices among children's nurses: a survey. British Journal Of Nursing, 21(15), 928-933. The article addressed medication administration practices among children’s nurses. This survey studied medication administration, reporting medication errors, and causes of medication errors. There was an open-ended question that allowed for the respondents to elaborate on ways to improve the medication administration. Comments notated the need for training on medications, need

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    One study had investigated reasons for the occurrence of medication errors, which included distractions, failure to identify the correct patient, similar names of medications and miscalculated doses (Mayo & Duncan, 2004). These factors are preventable measures that registered nurses have absolute control of. By following the fundamental framework of the “five rights”, it can prevent an error to occur and ultimately prevent a patient from harm. This framework is beneficial while educating nursing

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    According to Cloete (2015), medication errors continue to be one of the leading causes of harm to patients in the healthcare settings. A medication error is considered an avoidable incident linked to medication that fails in the treatment process but leads to or has the possibility of creating a serious negative effect on the patient’s health. A study conducted by Ebrahimpour, Ghodousi and Shahrokki (2013), reported that according to the Institute of Medicine, medication errors created in the United States

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    Background Medication error is defined as the following by the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention: “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing; order communication; product labeling; packaging, and

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    Medication errors are one of the most costly errors for a hospital to encounter. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), there is an estimate of over 90,000 people who dies annually as a result of hospital mistakes arising from medication errors. The IOM estimates that medical errors alone cost the U.S. over $37 billion each year. In resents studies, it has been revealed that preventable adverse events (PAEs) lead to 350,000 patients who seek care in hospitals. The CDC reports that these figures

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    Medication error can be very deadly, and mainly happens in the healthcare settings today in American. Medication Error cause around 10,000 of death and deaths every year far as given the wrong medication, to an patient can have a very bad allergic reaction from that wrong drug was given. On the other hand the most errors may happen if the drug name are similar to each other, also if it’s a sign of poor hand writing or poor transcriptions as well. To try to prevent mistakes is to pay an close attention

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