Medication administration errors: understanding the issues

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Medication administration errors: understanding the issues

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Objective: This paper surveys current literature related to medication administration errors, the role of nurses in such errors, and current initiatives that are underway within New Zealand to address this aspect of patient safety. Setting: The literature review focused on research that primarily addresses the issues related to medications that arise in tertiary care facilities. Primary argument: Medication administration errors are reported to occur in one in five medication dosages. Such ev...

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06 Mar, 2022

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Karen McBride-Henry / M Foureur

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quality and safe use of medicines / professional practice / nursing research / literature review / Health services & systems / Health Services Research / Patient Safety / 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services / Humans / Medication Errors / Medication Systems / New Zealand / Nursing Research / Risk Management / Science & Technology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Nursing / ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS / PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY / HEALTH-CARE / PATIENT SAFETY / INTENSIVE-CARE / PEDIATRIC INPATIENTS / PRESCRIBING ERRORS / HOSPITALS / NURSES / PERCEPTIONS / Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified / Nursing not elsewhere classified

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