Applying Research Skills

Running Head: MEDICATION ERRORS 1

Applying Research Skills

Raymil Fernandez

Capella University

NHS-FPX4000

Shad Smith

4/22/2022

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Applying research Skills

Medication error usually occurs in the health care facilities where there is no strictness on

the measures. These measures are applied so that health care providers can adhere to the

instructions for the administration of the drugs. While those instances are generally not intentional,

they can have brilliant effects on the lives of sufferers and bring about intense complications. As a

nurse, I have experienced several incidents with patients who have been prescribed the incorrect

medicinal drug or dosage. A current case changed while a six-year-antique woman changed into

sedated with 2.0mg of midazolam intravenously each minute, which changed into the dosage

endorsed for kids elderly twelve years and above. The proper dosage for the kid changed into a

speculated variety between 0.1/2 to 0.05 mg/kg with non-stop evaluation. The mistakes changed

into recognized throughout the documentation. The infant did not revel in any intense

complications.

Annotated Bibliography

Cohen, M. (2016). Medication errors (miscellaneous). Nursing.46 (2):72, February 2016. DOI:

10.1097/01.NURSE.0000476239.09094.06

The research is focused on medication errors; medications are a blessing if health

care carriers dispense, administer, prescribe, and prepare them to sufferers appropriately

and correctly. Yet, healthcare carriers are human and, as such, errant. Despite their know-

how and dedication to standard, mistakes and different detrimental occasions with

medicinal drugs arise and reason becomes human agonizing. Administering the incorrect

medicine, dose, or strength; mistaking one facsimile or look-alike drug call for another;

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giving medicinal drugs through the wrong course of administration; misjudging doses;

embezzling scientific tools; transcribing or prescribing the incorrect medication; or

selecting the incorrect affected person from a listing at the laptop screen—despite our nice

efforts, these items manifest each day, to each form of a person, in each health care setting.

The huge range of recent pills and technology brought every year complicates remedy, as

does a developing aged populace with continual and acute situations requiring complicated

remedy strategies. Each blunder may be tragic and expensive in each human and monetary

term. The findings confirmed that medicinal drug mistakes had been excessive inside the

evening, morning, and all through night time shifts. Based on the outcomes obtained, the

realization cautioned that decreasing the workload and nurses’ operating hours had been

powerful techniques of coping with the problem. Additionally, a group of workers'

attention and revising the drug prescription strategies had been advocated as powerful

techniques of coping with the issue.

Gorgich, E. A., Barfroshan, S., Ghoreishi, G., & Yaghoobi, M. (2016). Investigating the Causes of

Medication Errors and Strategies to Prevention Them from Nurses and Nursing Student

Viewpoint. Canadian Center of Science and Education: Global Journal of Health Science,

8(8), 220-227. doi: 10.5539/gets.v8n8p220

These studies centered on investigating the reasons for drug mistakes and the

techniques that might be carried out to lessen the prevalence of those events from a nursing

viewpoint. The predominant quarrels addressed in the research changed based on the poor

results of drug mistakes, and they want to use techniques to lessen those cases. Topics

included how the researchers protected the function nurses play in inflicting and stopping

medicine mistakes, reasons for those mistakes, and the facet results of drugs. The

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researchers have included proof from different research on the charges of mortality related

to medical mistakes and the prices of coping with headaches due to those issues. They want

to equip nurses with pharmacological know-how to lessen the superiority of those mistakes.

The findings confirmed that the common reasons for those mistakes amongst nurses

protected fatigue and drug calculation. The researchers recognized pharmacological

education, decreased painting pressure, and right nurse-affected person ratios as powerful

techniques for lowering those incidents.

Schmidt, K., Taylor, A., & Pearson, A. (2017). Reduction of medication errors: A unique

approach. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 32(2), April/June 2017, 150-156.

The research is about reducing medical errors in the health care sector; Medication

mistakes are a supply of significantly affected person harm. A specific approach, Socio-

Technical Probabilistic Risk Assessment, has become used to research historic mistakes in

this setting. The aim was to pick out a minimum quantity of steps that could set up

expanded reliability and reduce mistakes if those steps had been used each time. Three

steps have been recognized that must be fascinated by each intravenous remedy or fluid

administration. The preliminary evaluation discovered a 22% discount in mistakes whilst

using those three steps. The subjects included withinside the studies included affected

person damage due to medicinal drug mistakes, useful resource usage in healthcare

settings, accidental results of drug management mistakes, and interventions to lessen those

incidents. The studies included pediatric sufferers who had suffered from headaches

because of remedy mistakes withinside the study. The proof received confirmed that the

usage of barcodes, established prescribing forms, and managed checklists as separate

interventions have been now no longer powerful in lowering remedy mistakes. The

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researchers concluded that an aggregate of the interventions or software of different

techniques became crucial in handling the problem.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2012). Table 6: Categories of Medication Error Classification. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety- resources/resources/match/matchtab6.html

The research is about the preoperative errors in medication; there has usually been

essential stability in medication among the concepts of prognosis and remedy. However,

the sources required to attain this stability are continuously switching. While the

implemented factors of clinical testing hold to adapt methodologically, the choice and

shipping of a selected reception routine nevertheless need a human move. Similarly, at its

maximum essential degree, the successful shipping of a particular healing intercession and

the anticipation of mistakes requires the management of the precise medicinal drug in the

precise dose thru the precise path at the precise time to the precise patient. These essential

phrases are made increasingly hard through the ever-increasing variety and variable

efficiency of medicinal drugs to be had to practitioners.

Summary

The assets applied inside the annotated bibliography have been acquired from the National

Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the Cochrane Library databases. The major

factors discovered from the annotated bibliography encompass the one-of-a-kind reason for

medicine mistakes, varieties of medicinal drug mistakes typically visible in healthcare facilities,

the function of nurses in stopping medicinal drug mistakes, and techniques that may be carried out

to lessen instances of those mistakes. These assets have accelerated my understanding of medicinal

drug mistakes and the strategies that may be taken to save them. For instance, nurses' engagement

in consciousness and lowering their workload is a powerful technique for lowering this problem.

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References

Cohen, M. (2016). Medication errors (miscellaneous). Nursing.46 (2):72, February 2016. DOI:

10.1097/01.NURSE.0000476239.09094.06

Schmidt, K., Taylor, A., & Pearson, A. (2017). Reduction of medication errors: A unique

approach. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 32(2), April/June 2017, 150-156.

Gorgich, E. A., Barfroshan, S., Ghoreishi, G., & Yaghoobi, M. (2016). Investigating the Causes of

Medication Errors and Strategies to Prevention Them from Nurses and Nursing Student

Viewpoint. Canadian Center of Science and Education: Global Journal of Health Science,

8(8), 220-227. doi: 10.5539/gets.v8n8p220

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2012). Table 6: Categories of Medication Error Classification. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety- resources/resources/match/matchtab6.html