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Nurses' role in medication safety
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posted on 2010-10-01, 00:00 authored by J Choo, Alison HutchinsonAlison Hutchinson, Tracey BucknallTracey BucknallAim To explore the nurses role in the process of medication management and identify the challenges associated with safe medication management in contemporary clinical practice.
Background Medication errors have been a long-standing factor affecting consumer safety. The nursing profession has been identified as essential to the promotion of patient safety.
Evaluation A review of literature on medication errors and the use of electronic prescribing in medication errors.
Key issues Medication management requires a multidisciplinary approach and interdisciplinary communication is essential to reduce medication errors. Information technologies can help to reduce some medication errors through eradication of transcription and dosing errors. Nurses must play a major role in the design of computerized medication systems to ensure a smooth transition to such as system.
Conclusion The nurses roles in medication management cannot be over-emphasized. This is particularly true when designing a computerized medication system.
Implication for nursing management The adoption of safety measures during decision making that parallel those of the aviation industry safety procedures can provide some strategies to prevent medication error. Innovations in information technology offer potential mechanisms to avert adverse events in medication management for nurses.
Background Medication errors have been a long-standing factor affecting consumer safety. The nursing profession has been identified as essential to the promotion of patient safety.
Evaluation A review of literature on medication errors and the use of electronic prescribing in medication errors.
Key issues Medication management requires a multidisciplinary approach and interdisciplinary communication is essential to reduce medication errors. Information technologies can help to reduce some medication errors through eradication of transcription and dosing errors. Nurses must play a major role in the design of computerized medication systems to ensure a smooth transition to such as system.
Conclusion The nurses roles in medication management cannot be over-emphasized. This is particularly true when designing a computerized medication system.
Implication for nursing management The adoption of safety measures during decision making that parallel those of the aviation industry safety procedures can provide some strategies to prevent medication error. Innovations in information technology offer potential mechanisms to avert adverse events in medication management for nurses.
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Journal of nursing managementVolume
18Issue
7Season
Special Issue : This issue : Service improvement in health carePagination
853 - 861Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing LtdLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0966-0429eISSN
1365-2834Language
engPublication classification
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