Lesson 5 Flashcards
The use of CPOE system has the potential to alleviate many of these problems. CPOE can be defined as a system used for direct entry of one or more types of medical orders by a prescriber into a system that transmits those orders by electronically to the appropriate department. What CPOE means?
Computerized Prescriber Order Entry
In ______, there were television and newspaper accounts that reported the tragic death of patient from a preventable adverse drug event (ADE) due to an inadvertent administration of a massive over dose of a chemotherapy agent over 4 days.
1995
__________: After the patient’s bar code armband and medication have been scanned, the dose is inadvertently dropped onto the floor.
Omissions
_______________: May be given when there are orders for the same drug to be administered by a different route.
Extra dose
_______________: In situations when the nurse administers a medication, which has not been labeled with a bar code.
Wrong drug
___________: In situations when the nurse has difficulty in scanning medication and proceeds to scan the
medication twice.
Wrong dose
___________: An order to hold a medication unless a lab value is at a certain level such us an amino glycoside.
Unauthorized drug
_______________: Distinguish the indication for the administration of the medication.
Charting errors
________________: Certain drug shortages may force a pharmacy to dispense a different strength or concentration other than what is entered in the BPOC software.
Wrong dosage form
The ______________________ is a computerized point-of-use medication-management system that is designed to replace or support
the traditional unit-dose drug delivery system.
Automated Dispensing Cabinets(ADC)
Infusion pumps with dose calculation software, sometimes referred to as “_______________”, could reduce medication errors, improve workflow, and provide a new source of data for continuous quality improvement by identifying and correcting pump-programming errors.
smart pumps
