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Sign Up Front Page Explainers Nurselife Ausmed Lectures Podcast Subscribe Resources medication error reporting form (pdf) Search Front Page Explainers Nurselife Ausmed Lectures Podcast Subscribe Resources Explainers What Questions Should Be Asked When a medication incident report form template Medication Error Occurs? Anne Leversha 13th Mar '15 2 Nurses have an important role in detecting, reporting, preventing and investigating medication errors. ‘However, nurses can also sometimes be responsible
Medication Error Reporting Format
for making medication errors, so it is important that they understand the consequences of these mistakes…'1 All medication errors have consequences, be they major or minor. However, regardless of what the consequences might be there should always be a review, including the asking of questions. Below you will find a number of case studies, these are designed to
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explore medication errors you may have encountered and provide simple examples of some of the types of questions you should ask. Case Study One How would you manage a medication error involving insulin? A patient receives a dose of 40 units of Humalog insulin instead of 40 units of Humalog Mix25. Humalog contains insulin lispro, a very short acting insulin. Humalog Mix25 contains insulin lispro 25% and insulin lispro protamine suspension (intermediate acting) 75%. A dose of 40 units of Humalog Mix25 contains 10 units of insulin lispro. What's wrong here? The patient has received 4 times the dose of the very short acting insulin. Cases Study Two A diabetic foot with necrosis. Image: Life in the Fast Lane / CC BY-SA 4.0 A patient with a severe diabetic foot infection with marked necrosis is ordered piptaz2. The patient has a penicillin allergy. Piptaz contains piperacillin which is a penicillin. The patient receives the first dose of the medication and suffers an anaphylactic reaction. When responding to a medication error, the f
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