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This 5 page paper looks at the problem of medication errors, particularly as it pertains to nursing. A review of the literature is included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of Tylenol by accident. Nurses make mistakes too, sometimes due to a miscommunication between professionals, sometimes due to sloppy handwriting and sometimes due to a human mistake. Nurses new to
the profession can easily make such errors. On the television show ER, for example, a medical student gives another student far too much of a certain drug and almost kills
him as she followed the orders of another. However, she misunderstood the dosage order. Giving something in milligrams or micrograms for example matters and nurses must be sure to avoid
pitfalls of practicing medicine, inclusive of giving too much or too little of a prescribed drug. The subject of medication errors goes to ethics. A new employee in any field
can make a mistake, but a mistake on the part of a young nurse can cost a patient his or her life. Further, the most serious mistakes are made in
pediatrics and one can imagine that seriously injuring a child can cause a great deal of grief in families. Clearly, medication errors go to morality. If a nurse is not
concentrating on his or her case, or allows himself to be distracted or does not double check a prescription to save time, that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical.
Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home setting. II. Review of the Literature An analysis of medication errors released by USP and
reported by MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). Of 105,603 (2003, p.2021) reported errors, it
was noted that 3,361 (2003, p.2021)errors, which is equivalent to 3.2 % (2003, p.2021), had been related to the pediatric population. A large majority of these errors had actually been
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