Effects Of Insulin Medication Errors On New Grad Nurses

The purpose of this paper is to explore this concept within the context of Medication Administration errors (MAEs), examine factors that contribute to nurses becoming second victims, and the impact that becoming a second victim has on nurses and nursing. In events such as MAEs, there can be three types of victims: the first is the patient and their family, the second victim is the nurse or health care professional and the third is the involved organisation. Second victim is defined as a “health care provider involved in an unanticipated adverse event, medical error, and/or a patient

The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of medication errors in health care facilities. According to Williams and Ashrcoft (2013) “ An estimated median of 19.1 % of total opportunities for error in hospitals.” Although not all medication errors occur during transition it is the time most prevalent for these errors to occur. As per Johnson, Guirguis, and Grace (2015) “An estimated 60% of all medication errors occur during transition of care. The National Transitions of Care Coalition defines a transition of care as the movement of patients between healthcare locations, providers, or different levels of care within the same location as their conditions and care needs change, [and] frequently involves multiple persons, including the patient, the family member or other caregiver(s), nurse(s), social worker(s), case manager(s), pharmacist(s), physician(s), and other providers.”

There are a variety of different outcomes that pertain to a medication error. As I have stated previously, multiple people are affected when a medication error takes place. Not only does this affect the patient and nurse, but also the physician, and healthcare that you are working for. As an employee, you represent the healthcare facility that you work for. The patient’s family will also be affected. Say for instance you gave a patient an extremely high dose of a medication that lead to an overdose, the patients family will be affected dramatically. There are still a high number of medication errors for this to be problematic. This incident happens too frequently, which is why researchers are trying to find a cause and solution. It has also been noted that there are a high number of medication errors than what is actually reported. The Nursing Economic$ journal found that 19% of doses given in the 36 facilities they were researching, 7% were considered as harmful (Tseng, 2012). Even though the error affects multiple people, the nurses are the main care-giver when it comes to giving medication. Nurses are the people responsible for giving the medication. They are responsible for double-checking and making sure they are giving the correct dosage and knowing the information about the medication they are giving. While there are a high number of medication

After evaluating the incident, I found that the negative aspect of the incident was that after administering the wrong dose of insulin the patient was at a major risk and that the duty of care was not performed well. The positive aspects of this incident were that I learnt the importance of checking the medication chart thoroughly and paying more attention to the numbers and units in the chart. It is also safe to administer medication using the five rights of medication administration, such as the right patient, the right medication, the right dose, the right time and the right route (Medication Handling in NSW Public Health facilities, 2013). (Cheragi, Manoocheri & Eshani, 2013) have stated that medication errors tend to occur from nurses due to, tiredness, carelessness, high workload, stress and poor communication and as well as having a poor knowledge and

Medication administration is a multi-step process that is handled by multiple healthcare professionals. It begins with the prescription that is transcribed mostly by the physician, then dispensed by the pharmacist, and ends with the administration of the medication by the nurse. Throughout this multi-step process, medication errors can occur at any stage of the medication administration process. As expressed by L. Cloete in “Reducing medication errors in nursing practice,” “One third of the errors that harm patients occur during the nurse administration phase: administering medication to patients is therefore a high-risk activity.” Because the nurse is responsible for administering medication to the patient, he/she is considered and viewed as the most accountable in regards to the patient’s safety. Medication errors are one of the most common medical errors that can result in an adverse event that may pose a serious threat to the patient’s safety and well-being. In the article, “An inside look into the factors contributing to medication errors in the clinical nursing practice,” Savvato and Efstratios defined and characterized medication error as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing; order communication;

The Causes of Medication Errors in Nursing Medication errors are among the most common type of medical error, and it is widely known that the consequences can be very significant for the patient. Medication errors also affect healthcare individuals leading to personal and professional embarrassment and emotional trauma of involvement in the adverse outcomes (Pezzolesi, Ghaleb, Kostrzewski, & Dhillon, 2013). The entire goal of nursing is to maintain the safety of every client, although it is no easy task. Medical management is one of the most labor intensive, and possibly one of the most risk-laden duties performed in the provision of patient care (Leufer & Cleary-Holdforth, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to determine and discuss the

Causes of medication errors are important to recognize and evaluate otherwise patients will not be receiving quality care. Nursing students errors were mostly made under the field focused on the five rights of medication administration (Wolf, Hicks, & Serembus, 2006). Patient safety is at risk when student nurses do not know how to use the six rights of medication administration. If nursing educators and experienced nurses do not change their attitudes, or seek help with reporting errors, future nurses will not understand the severity of their actions when they fail to report a medication error.

While any decrease in medication errors is welcomed, the anticipation is the decrease will be from fewer distractions for the administering nurse. Errors that occurred in the one year period prior to the study will be compared to the year that the hospital staff has been educated about the research program and the medication administering nurses are wearing the sashes. Internal communication of the findings will be disseminated to the board of trustees and administration via a technical report that will include data and analysis. A different internal report that summarizes the data and technical information will be disseminated to department heads and other staff, including nurses, nurse aides, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy, and other necessary staff. Every employee will be emailed a copy of the summary report, ensuring all employees have access to the results. In addition to verbally educating patients and their families about the findings, a tri-fold pamphlet will be created to hand to all patients. This pamphlet can also be used for educating the public in general at community or open house

There are a lot of factors that could lead to these events, such as training deficiencies; research also shows that a nurse’s level of education could be a contributing factor to medication error. The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between level of education and medication error, and years of work experience with medication error.With a better understanding of these relationships, nursing professionals can learn what characteristics tend to make a nurse prone to medication errors and can develop

The sampling was of 38 nurses and a convenience sample was used. Contributing factors to medication errors included nurses tired and exhausted, physician’s writing illegible, and nurses distracted/ interrupted. Distraction may lead to not completing the “five rights” of medication administration. Poor communication was also perceived as a reason for error. Preventative measures were listed as following the five rights and a computerized system for prescribing and documenting

The authors suggest that this error is a lead cause of hospital deaths related to medication errors. The research is done by surveying those in the fields of nursing, pharmacy, and other prescribers to test their knowledge, experience, and capabilities on handling high-alert medications in a hospital. The study shows that results varies between each perspective field of study. The survey and the research show that more discipline on handling high-alert medication is needed to prevent unnecessary medical errors by prescription. The article discusses that continuing education is required to hold the health providers accountable in the medication use process. This research will be beneficial to my research paper since the source provides detail information in regard to prescription errors that is a major cause of hospital deaths in the United

Medication error is one of the biggest problems in the healthcare field. Patients are dying due to wrong drug or dosage. Medication error is any preventable incident that leads to inappropriate medication use or harms the patient while the medication is in the control of the health care professional,or patient (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2015). It is estimated about 44,000 inpatients die each year in the United States due to medication errors which were indeed preventable (Mahmood, Chaudhury, Gaumont & Rust, 2012). There are many factors that contribute to medication error. However, the most common that factors are human factors, right patient information, miscommunication of abbreviations, wrong dosage. Healthcare providers do not intend to make medication errors, but they happen anyways. Therefore, nursing should play a tremendous role to reduce medication error

In conclusion, authors HAW, Stubbs, and Dickens analysis shows there is a need for all nurses to develop his or her true learning culture when errors and near misses are viewed as opportunities not burdens within all healthcare settings. Implications within the study revealed a need to cultivate nurses learning culture. In order for learning culture to improve, nurses need education and training regarding med-error reporting. With appropriate training, authors believe nursing staff will become more knowledgeable and proficient in reporting med-errors. When nursing staff are more knowledgeable, medication event reporting will increase due to a decrease in excuses, reporting burdens, and fear.

Serious and fatal incidence can occur during medication administration. Errors occur and harm at least 1.5 million people a year because of neglectful practice or lack of knowledge of medication. The Joint Commission has set medication administration as the third national patient safety goal. Healthcare facilities all across the world have implemented protocols for their staff to be in compliance of those goals. There are different type of medication errors that can be made. Adverse drug errors are errors that result from medical interventions related to a drug. Preventable adverse errors result from an error or equipment failure. Medication errors are errors that

Johnson, M., Tran, D., Thuy, Young, H., 2011. Developing risk management behaviours for nurses through medication incident analysis. International Journal of Nursing Practice 17, 548-555. doi:10.1111/j.1440-172X.2011.01977.x