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Common Medication Errors By Nurses
May-Jun 2013PMC3748543 Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2013 May-Jun; 18(3): 228–231. preventing medication errors in nursing PMCID: PMC3748543Types and causes of medication errors from nurse's viewpointMohammad Ali Cheragi, Human Manoocheri,1 Esmaeil Mohammadnejad,2 and Syyedeh
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R. Ehsani1Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Tehran Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran1Department of Nursing Management, Shahid Beheshti Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Shahid medication errors in nursing 2014 Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran2Nursing Office, Imam Khomeini Clinical and Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranAddress for correspondence: Mr. Esmaeil Mohammadnejad, First Floor, No. 9, Kavusi Alley, Urmia St, South Eskandari St, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: moc.oohay@8531onersaAuthor information ► Copyright and License information ►Copyright : © Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ResearchThis is medication errors in nursing journal articles an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.AbstractBackground:The main professional goal of nurses is to provide and improve human health. Medication errors are among the most common health threatening mistakes that affect patient care. Such mistakes are considered as a global problem which increases mortality rates, length of hospital stay, and related costs. This study was conducted to evaluate the types and causes of nursing medication errors.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009. A total number of 237 nurses were randomly selected from nurses working in Imam Khomeini Hospital (Tehran, Iran). They filled out a questionnaire including 10 items on demographic characteristics and 7 items about medication errors. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS for Windows 16.0.Results:Medication errors had been made by 64.55% of the nurses. In addition, 31.37% of the participants reporte
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Reducing Medication Errors In Nursing Practice
Help Journal ListBMC Nursv.14; 2015PMC4618536 BMC Nurs. 2015; 14: 53. nursing medication errors stories Published online 2015 Oct 21. doi: 10.1186/s12912-015-0099-1PMCID: PMC4618536Medication administration error: magnitude and associated factors among
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nurses in EthiopiaSenafikish Amsalu Feleke, Muluadam Abebe Mulatu, and Yeshaneh Seyoum YesmawDepartment of Reproductive Health, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia Internal https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748543/ Medicine Department, Felege Hiwot Referal Hospital, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Department of Nursing, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Senafikish Amsalu Feleke, Email: moc.liamg@ulasmahsikifanes.Contributor Information.Corresponding author.Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ►Received 2014 Oct 26; Accepted 2015 Sep 30.Copyright © Feleke et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4618536/ distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.AbstractBackgroundThe significant impact of medication administration errors affect patients in terms of morbidity, mortality, adverse drug events, and increased length of hospital stay. It also increases costs for clinicians and healthcare systems. Due to this, assessing the magnitude and associated factors of medication administration error has a significant contribution for improving the quality of patient care. The aim of this study was to assess the magnitude and associated factors of medication administration errors
Me Forgot Password? Login or Sign up for a Free Account My Topics of Interest My CME My Profile Sign Out Home Topics Issues WebM&M Cases Perspectives Primers Submit Case CME / CEU Training Catalog Info Glossary https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primers/primer/23/medication-errors About PSNet Help & FAQ Contact PSNet Email Updates Editorial Team Technical Expert/Advisory http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-hospital-medication-error-kills-patient/ Panel Terms & Conditions / Copyright PSNet Privacy Policy External Link Disclaimer Patient Safety Primer Last Updated: March 2015 Medication Errors Topics Resource Type Patient Safety Primers Safety Target Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs More Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Print Background and definitions Prescription medication use is widespread, medication errors complex, and increasingly risky. Clinicians have access to an armamentarium of more than 10,000 prescription medications, and nearly one-third of adults in the United States take 5 or more medications. Advances in clinical therapeutics have undoubtedly resulted in major improvements in health for patients with many diseases, but these benefits have also been accompanied by increased risks. An adverse drug event (ADE) is defined as harm experienced medication errors in by a patient as a result of exposure to a medication, and ADEs account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations each year. ADEs affect nearly 5% of hospitalized patients, making them one of the most common types of inpatient errors; ambulatory patients may experience ADEs at even higher rates. Transitions in care are also a well-documented source of preventable harm related to medications. As with the more general term adverse event, the occurrence of an ADE does not necessarily indicate an error or poor quality care. A medication error refers to an error (of commission or omission) at any step along the pathway that begins when a clinician prescribes a medication and ends when the patient actually receives the medication. Preventable adverse drug events result from a medication error that reaches the patient and causes any degree of harm. It is generally estimated that about half of ADEs are preventable. Medication errors that do not cause any harm—either because they are intercepted before reaching the patient, or by luck—are often called potential ADEs. An ameliorable ADE is one in which the patient experienced harm from a medication that, while not completely preventable, could have been
In Join CBSNews.com Sign in with CBSNews.com - Breaking News Video US World Politics Entertainment Health MoneyWatch SciTech Crime Sports Photos More Blogs Battleground The WH Web Shows 60 Overtime Face to Face Resources Mobile Radio Local In Depth CBS News Store CBS/AP December 4, 2014, 6:11 PM Hospital medication error kills patient in Oregon Comment Share Tweet Stumble Email A hospital in Bend, Oregon, says it administered the wrong medication to a patient, causing her death.Loretta Macpherson, 65, died shortly after she was given a paralyzing agent typically used during surgeries instead of an anti-seizure medication, said Dr. Michel Boileau, chief clinical officer for St. Charles Health System.He said Macpherson stopped breathing and suffered cardiac arrest and brain damage.Macpherson came into the ER two days earlier with medication dosage questions after a recent brain surgery.Three employees involved in the error have been placed on paid leave. The organization is conducting an investigation, but doesn't yet know how the error occurred, Boileau said.The investigation is looking at every step of the medication process: from how the medication was ordered from the manufacturer, to how the pharmacy mixed, packaged and labeled the drug, to how it was brought to the nurses and administered to the patient."We're looking for any gaps or weaknesses in the process, or to see if there has been any human error involved," Boileau said.The hospital notified the Deschutes County district attorney, who did not immediately return a call for comment.According to the Bend Bulletin, the doctors determined Macpherson needed an intravenous anti-seizure medication called fosphenytoin, but instead accidentally administered rocuronium, which caused Macpherson to stop breathing and go into cardiac arrest, leading to irreversible brain damage. The hospital took Macpherson off life support Wednesday morning.The patient's son, Mark Macpherson told the newspaper he'd recently moved to closer to care for her. "We didn't get the answer for a couple of days about what had happened, but when they first told us, it was pure anger," he told the paper, adding that he wasn't sure if the family planned to pursue legal action. Boileau told the newspaper this was the fir