Week 2, Ch 7 Flashcards
Errors and Risk Reduction
List 3 - 5 potential causes of errors by a nurse.
-Omitting one of the rights of drug administration
-Failing to perform an agency system check
-Failing to take into account patient variables such as age, body size, and renal or hepatic function
-Giving medications based on verbal orders or phone orders
-Giving medication based on an incomplete order or an illegible order
What is a common cause of morbidity and preventable death in hospitals?
Medication Errors
What is the acceptable incidence rate for medication administration errors?
Zero; There is no acceptable rate
All medication errors will accompany a what?
An Incident Report
An Incidence Report is a document for which hospital department?
Risk-Management department.
What does an Incidence Report allow a nurse to do?
Recognize factors that contributed to an error.
What does the Risk-Management department use Incidence Reports for?
Quality improvement
An unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or risk thereof is called a what?
Sentinel Event
What is a Sentinel Event?
An unexpected occurrence that results in death, physical/Psychological harm, or the risk of harm.
What is a Pharmacological Sentinel Event?
Drug administration that causes the death, physical/psychological harm of a patient.
Which of these are ways to reduce medication errors:
a.) Avoid using abbreviations that can be misunderstood
b.) Question unclear orders
c.) Do not accept verbal orders
d.) Follow facility policies and procedures
e.) All of the above
e.) All of the above
When should you record the patient’s medication administration record on the EMAR?
Immediately following the administration of the meds
the process of tracking a patient’s medications as they proceed from one health care provider to another is called what?
Medication Reconciliation
Medication Reconciliation is very important for Polypharmacy. What is polypharmacy?
The use of multiple drugs to treat a single ailment or condition.
What does Medication Reconciliation list?
All the meds that a patient is taking.
