Safety Intervention Educational Program to Reduce Medication Administration Errors and Interruptions
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Are interventions to reduce interruptions and errors during medication administration effective?: a systematic review
BACKGROUND Medication administration errors are frequent and lead to patient harm. Interruptions during medication administration have been implicated as a potential contributory factor. OBJECTIVE To assess evidence of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing interruptions during medication administration on interruption and medication administration error rates. METHODS In Sept...
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The nature of today’s healthcare practice makes interruptions, distractions and multi-tasking commonplace, even during complex and high risk tasks.[1,2,3] Interruptions are often cited as a problem in medication safety, particularly in relation to nurses administering medication.[1,4] Previous studies [5,6] suggest an association between interruptions and medication administration errors. While...
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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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BACKGROUND In many surveys, nurses cite work interruptions as a significant contributor to medication administration errors. OBJECTIVES To review the evidence on (1) nurses' interruption rates, (2) characteristics of such work interruptions, and (3) contribution of work interruptions to medication administration errors. APPROACH SEARCH STRATEGY CINHAL (1982-2008), MEDLINE (1980-2008), EM...
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عنوان ژورنال: IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2320-1940,2320-1959
DOI: 10.9790/1959-0602031525