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Damen Marley
College of Nursing, Josh University
NUR2255; Research in Nursing
Professor Dan Foster
May 23, 2021
Reduction of Medication Errors Within a Surgical Unit with Limited Financial Resources
Scenario: A medical surgical unit manager has had a significant increase in medication administration errors over the last two months. The errors involve many staff members and are occurring on all shifts. The budget does not allow for the purchase of new administration system. Your task is to research an intervention to decrease medication administration errors from the nursing staff within these parameters.
Picot Question: In a surgical unit nursing staff, what is the effect of professional development compared to automated dispensing cabinets in reducing medication errors?
P – Surgical unit nursing staff.
I – Professional development
C – Automated dispensing cabinet
O – Reduced medication error
3 Keywords: professional development, automated dispensing cabinets, medication error
1 Synonym: education
1 MeSH Term: Adverse drug event
References
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Di Simone, E., Giannetta, N., Auddino, F., Cicotto, A., Grilli, D., & Di Muzio, M. (2018). Medication errors in the emergency department: Knowledge, attitude, behavior, and training need of nursees. Indian journal of Critical Care Medicine, 22(5), 346-352. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_63_18
Metsamuuronen, R., Kokki, H., Naaranlahti, T., Kurttila, M., & Heikkila, R., (2020). Nurses’ perception of automated dispensing cabinets – and observation study and online survey. BMC nursing, 19(1), 1-9. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00420-2
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