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Post code: 55535, Tel: +306974992897, E-mail: stratosathanasakis@yahoo.gr Related article at Pubmed, Scholar Google Visit for more safe medication administration related articles at Health Science Journal Abstract Background: Medication administration to patients is a part of clinical nursing practice with high risk of errors occurrence. The causing factors of medication administration errors medication errors are either individual or systemic. In order to prevent errors before, the establishment of protective measures is pivotal. Purpose: To explore the protective measures taken by nurses to prevent medication errors in clinical practice. Method and material: A search of Medline, Science Direct and Cochrane Library was conducted to retrieve literature published from January 2000 until August 2011.
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Results: The protective measures against medication errors are related with the preparation and administration of medications, the dosing calculations skills of nurses, the nursing education, the oral medication orders, the interdisciplinary collaboration, the manager nurses and changes in health systems’ issues relevant with medication management. Conclusions: This review paper summarizes the preventive measures of medication errors made by nurses. As it is obvious, there is a plenty of factors that need to be applied in health units to succeed low medication error rate. Because of the significance of the subject, further research is warranted to prove the effectiveness of every measure in the prevention of medication errors. Key words Medication errors, prevention, nurses. Introduction Safety during patient hospitalization consists one of their rights and also the first priority of health professionals. Errors that occur during the application of medical/nursing interventions or patient hospitalization have drawn health researchers’ attention over the last decade. Errors appearing in the hospital settings concern a lot of incidents like patients falls, use of wrong equipment, sores, hospitals in
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Health Care Clinical eLearning ClinicalKey for Nursing Additional Elsevier Resources Blog Resources Whitepapers Videos Podcasts Webinars & Events Mosby's Heritage Contact e-Commerce store Request Demo Home \ Connect Blog \ http://www.confidenceconnected.com/blog/2012/08/22/clinical_reasoning_can_prevent_medication_errors/ Clinical Reasoning Can Prevent Medication Errors August 22, 2012 Clinical Reasoning Can Prevent Medication Errors Medication errors are the most common errors in health care. In fact, the average hospital patient can be subjected to at least one medication error per hospital day, and these errors may account for up to 7,000 hospital deaths every year. Fortunately, by relying medication error on clinical reasoning and appropriate actions to intercept these errors before they reach patients, nurses can prevent many medication errors before they occur. According to a recent study in Qualitative Health Research, nurses intercept 50% to 86% of potential medication errors. Through in-depth interviews, researchers found that medical-surgical nurses use more than the traditional “five rights” of medication medication errors in administration: right patient, medication, route, dose, and time. They also rely on two clinical reasoning themes—maintaining medication safety and managing the environment—to protect patients from medication errors. Clinical Reasoning and Medication Safety Nurses know that although electronic medical records are valuable tools, relying too heavily on them can pose risks. Keeping clinical reasoning skills sharp helps keep patients safe. To support clinical reasoning, nurses follow specific safety practices that include: • Patient education—Nurses review each medication and dose with the patient before administration. If anything seems odd, the nurse stops, checks the original order, and may go back to the notes to confirm the medication or discuss it with the physician or pharmacist. Nurses also collect information about their patients to help them predict which medications they need and recognize when something isn’t right. • Considering everything—Nurses consider the patient’s age, weight, laboratory test results, treatments, allergies, and other factors related to medication administration. If a drug does not seem right for a patient based on this information, they make evidence-based decisions, consulting dr
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