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A 3 page research paper that examines literature that focuses on medication errors and what nurses can do to prevent them. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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examination of literature focuses on medication errors and what nurses can do to prevent them. Adubato (2004) asserts that many errors result from poor communication. This poor communication problem
frequently results from the hierarchical nature of hospital management. In other words, doctors will subconsciously ignore information coming from a nurse because nurses are perceived as subordinate (Adubato, 2004). It
is, therefore, recommended that nurses should emphatically state what they perceived as they problem and what should be done and not assume that they have been heard until they receive
a response (Adubato, 2004). The Practice Breakdown Research Advisory Panel analyzed 21 case studies of nursing errors from nine state boards of nursing and, from this investigation, formulated
eight categories of nursing errors, which includes medication errors (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). This study determined that medication errors can result from: medications with similar names; medications with similar
packaging; medications that are not commonly used or prescribed; commonly used medications...to which many patients are allergic; and medications that require testing...to ensure proper (nontoxic) therapeutic levels are maintained" (Woods
and Doan-Johnson, 2002, p. 46). This study recommends that nurses should employ the Nation Coordinating Council for Reporting and Preventing Medication Errors Taxonomy as an instrument that allows
for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and Mandrack (2003) report that rather than judging the nurse
who reports an error each error should be analyzed with a focus on how the system allowed the error to occur, rather than who made the error. Simply remember
the "five rights" taught to nurses during their schooling provides a fundamental safeguard against medication errors. The "five rights" are: right patient, right drug, right dose, right route and right
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