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Integrative review of scientific production by nurses on medicationerrors This study, conducted in December 2010, aimed to identify characteristics of publications by nurses on medication errors. It was an integrative literature review using the descriptors "nursing" and "medication errors" covering the ...
Human error is a fact of life and mistakes with medication are the most common errors in health care. Studies have shown that, besides increasing hospital stays and inpatient expenses, medication errors cause more than 7,000 deaths annually in the United States. Patient safety experts at Johns ...
medication errorsnursingnurse's roleObjectives: to identify the perception of nursing undergraduate students about their learning in the field of semiotics in nursing, specifically the content calculation of medication and to know their conduct by a medication error. Methods: this is about a ...
About one third of unwanted reported medication consequences are due to medication errors, resulting in one-fifth of hospital injuries. The aim of this study was determined formal and informal medication errors of nurses and the level of importance of factors in refusal to report medication errors ...
Medication errors occur as often as once per patient per day in some settings, and approximately one-third of harmfulmedication errorsare thought to occur during medication administration. Johanna I. Westbrook, Ph.D., of the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues studied nurses preparing ...
BackgroundMedication errors are a serious and complex problem in clinical practice, especially in intensive care units whose patients can suffer potentially very serious consequences because of the critical nature of their diseases and the pharmacotherapy programs implemented in these patients. The origins...
Despite extensive research carried out on medication administration errors (MAEs) in the domain of infusion therapy, there is limited knowledge on nurse’s perceptions on the occurrence of MAEs during infusion therapy. Since nurses are responsible for medication preparation and administration in Dutch ...
Background & Aim: Drug therapy is an important part of the patient's care process which its proper and safe observance is of standard emphasis and its neglecting may give rise to errors and unrecoverable complications for the patient. Evaluation of medication error is necessary for error managemen...
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America - Vol. 22 - N° 2 - p. 191-196 - Medication Errors from an Emergency Room Setting: Safety Solutions for Nurses - EM consulte