Medication safety officer preparatory course: Outcomes and experiences

OUTCOMES IN PRACTICE Case Studies in Medication Safety Improvement

The problem of medication errors in health care has been well documented [1], and reducing medication errors has become an important goal in health care organizations. High-technology approaches, such as computerized physician order entry, have achieved impressive results in improving the medication process [2]. However, improvements to medication safety may also be achieved through the impleme...

Introduction to medication errors and medication safety

A medication safety incident is defined by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) as: ‘any unintended or unexpected incident which could have or did lead to harm for one or more patients’ (NPSA, 2007:9). These incidents can occur at each stage of the process involved in the delivery of medicines to patients, i.e. prescribing (including transcribing or physician ordering), dispensing, prepara...

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Root Cause Analysis: A Tool to Promote Officer Safety and Reduce Officer Involved Shootings Over Time

Nurses' experiences and perspectives on medication safety practices: an explorative qualitative study.

AIM To explore nurses' experiences with and perspectives on preventing medication administration errors. BACKGROUND Insight into nurses' experiences with and perspectives on preventing medication administration errors is important and can be utilised to tailor and implement safety practices. METHODS A qualitative interview study of 20 nurses in an academic medical centre was conducted betwe...